Cliffe Fort
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fortification, Palmerston forts
Coastal defence fort built ca 1860. A Palmerston Fort.
www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/pdf/cliff.pdf
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306602
From wikipedia:
-at-Hoo
"Cliffe Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the edge of the marshes to protect against invasion via the Thames. A Brennan Torpedo station was added in 1890, the rails of which are still visible at low water, and was used as an anti-aircraft battery in WWII. It is now inside a gravel extraction site and is inaccessible and very overgrown, and can only be viewed from the riverside path."
www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/pdf/cliff.pdf
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306602
From wikipedia:
-at-Hoo
"Cliffe Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the edge of the marshes to protect against invasion via the Thames. A Brennan Torpedo station was added in 1890, the rails of which are still visible at low water, and was used as an anti-aircraft battery in WWII. It is now inside a gravel extraction site and is inaccessible and very overgrown, and can only be viewed from the riverside path."
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffe_Fort
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°27'48"N 0°27'21"E
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- site of Mucking Marshes Landfill 3.7 km
- Mucking & Stanford Warren 4 km
- London Gateway 5.5 km
- Petroplus Oil refinery Coryton & Thames Haven 7.2 km
- Thurrock Council 7.3 km
- Tilbury Docks 7.6 km
- Hoo Peninsula 7.8 km
- The Thames Estuary 8.1 km
- Kent 35 km