Sunday, 11 October 2020

South West Coast Path - Tregantle Fort

Least Impressive Side of Tregantle Fort

Lovely week walking along the South West Coast Path with friends - first day torrential rain but improved after that. Only blog relevant item was walking past Tregantle Fort - one of the Palmerston Forts to protect a landing and land attack on Plymouth docks by the French in the 1860s. There was also some nice smaller Napoleonic forts on the side of the Sound itself, and a central barrier and sea fort which I assume was to force ships onto the shore batteries.

The other plus point of Tregantle was its now an Army rifle range so you got to see 300mm and 600m laid nicely out in front of you!

Napoleonic Fort converted into flats at Kingsand


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