Forts · South West England
Knowles Battery
In or near Tamerton Foliot.
Knowles Battery — Artillery battery in City of Plymouth, Devon, England.
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Knowles Battery is a fort in south west. Established 1863. (Artillery battery in City of Plymouth, Devon, England.) According to Wikipedia: "Knowles Battery 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
- 50.4161, -4.1648
- Established
- 1863
Sources
- osm: w503949645 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Knowles Battery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Knowle Battery.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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