Sandown Castle in Kent, the northernmost of the three Downs forts, completed the chain of artillery strongholds designed to deny the Goodwin Sands anchorage to a Franco-Imperial invasion fleet. Its completion in 1539 marked the end of the first phase of Henry VIII Device Fort programme on the Kent coast.
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Small garrison; multiple artillery pieces covering the Downs
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