The Portland Bill beacon was a critical relay point in the Armada warning chain, sitting at the southernmost tip of the Dorset coast and visible from both the Devon headlands to the west and the Hampshire shore to the east. Its firing in 1588 propagated the alarm eastward along the Dorset and Hampshire coasts within minutes of the signal arriving from Devon. Portland Castle, Henry VIII Device Fort of 1540, had its garrison brought to war readiness at the same time.
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