Brean Down Fort was a Victorian naval fortification designed to protect the Bristol Channel. It was built 60 feet (18 m) above sea level on the headland...
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Temple. At the seaward end is Brean Down Fort which was built in 1865 and then re-armed in the Second World War. Brean Down is now owned by the National...
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is Brean Down, a promontory standing 320 feet (98 m) high and extending 1.5 miles (2.4 km) into the Bristol Channel, on which stands Brean Down Fort, marking...
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Battery in Plymouth Sound Brean Down Fort, on Bristol Channel's south coast St Catherine's Fort, on southeast coast of Wales Folly fort Other British coastal...
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Steep Holm (redirect from Steep Holm fort)
Brean Down; however, the dip is at a different angle to that on Brean Down. On Steep Holm the dip is about 30 degrees to the north whereas at Brean Down...
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development and storage with testing. The "bouncing bomb" was tested at the Brean Down Fort on the opposite side of Weston Bay. After the war, the pier resumed...
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does not offer Archaeology courses). Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House (both for episode 2), Chavenage House for episodes...
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Chudleigh Fort Berry Head Bristol Channel Brean Down Fort Dartmouth Bayard's Cove Fort Plymouth Royal Citadel Agaton Fort Breakwater Fort Cawsand Fort Crownhill...
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eighteenth-century gunpowder magazines in the country. Brean Down Fort was one of a number of Palmerston Forts built to defend the British, Irish and Channel...
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ready". The transmitting equipment was almost immediately relocated to Brean Down Fort on the Somerset coast, stretching the range to 16 kilometres (9.9 mi)...
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