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Breakwater Fort is a nineteenth-century coastal defence fortification located at Plymouth, Devon. Constructed during the 1860s as part of the wider programme of Victorian coastal fortifications, the fort was built to protect Plymouth Sound and the naval dockyard from potential enemy attack. The structure is a polygonal casemated fort built of granite and brick, designed to mount artillery and equipped with gun positions to command the approaches to the harbour. The fort remains substantially intact and represents an important example of mid-nineteenth-century military engineering adapted to the requirements of steam-powered naval warfare.
Breakwater fort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002623. View the official record →
Breakwater Fort is a nineteenth-century coastal defence fortification located at Plymouth, Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002623.
Breakwater fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002623.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fort Bovisand (1.6 km), Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures (2 km), Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Breakwater fort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Breakwater fort stands on Devonian claystone, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is claystone.