Forts · South West England
Bowden Battery
In or near Tamerton Foliot.
Bowden Battery is a fort in the United Kingdom.
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About
Bowden Battery is a fort in south west. Established 1863. According to Wikipedia: "Bowden Fort is a former 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport."
- Coordinates
- 50.4056, -4.1174
- Established
- 1863
Sources
- osm: n4941827436 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Bowden Fort (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Plymouth Garden Centre, Bowden Battery - geograph.org.uk - 85864.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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