Mount Pleasant Redoubt [22 photos] in SX4555 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

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Mount Pleasant Redoubt

Earthwork redoubt, constructed in 1780. It formed part of an integrated defensive system, designed to protect Plymouth Dockyard against a land invasion by Franco-Spanish forces. It is defined by an earthen bank about 42 metres square with a single entrance on the south side. The redoubt is surrounded by a ditch and counterscarp bank, most of which survive. Access over the ditch was via a drawbridge. The redoubt was armed with guns mounted on the two front faces, the north and east. In 1780 it was armed with eight 3-pounders, eight 12-pounders, thirteen 18-pounders on the two north faces, blunderbusses and musketry. There was a two storey blockhouse in the centre, which was burnt out in 1855, and was connected via an underground passage to the main magazine in the south west corner. The redoubt became redundant after 1860 but was reused during World War II, mounting an anti-aircraft gun and a barrage balloon, and was later incorporated into a public park. During the First World War it mounted a 12-pounder, 12-hundredweight, anti aircraft gun. Recently conserved, it is in good condition.
It is a Scheduled Monument and Grade II listed. Link

by N Chadwick

Created: Tue, 23 May 2017, Updated: Tue, 23 May 2017

22 images use this description:

SX4555 : Mount Pleasant Redoubt by N Chadwick

SX4555 : View from Mount Pleasant - S by N Chadwick

SX4556 : View from Mount Pleasant - N by N Chadwick

SX4555 : Entering Mount Pleasant Redoubt by N Chadwick

SX4656 : View from Mount Pleasant - NE by N Chadwick

SX4556 : View from Mount Pleasant - NNW by N Chadwick

SX4555 : Triangulation Pillar, Mount Pleasant Redoubt by N Chadwick

SX4555 : View from Mount Pleasant - SW by N Chadwick

SX4655 : View from Mount Pleasant - ESE by N Chadwick

SX4656 : View from Mount Pleasant - NNE by N Chadwick

SX4555 : Mount Pleasant Redoubt - information board by N Chadwick

SX4555 : View from Mount Pleasant - SSW by N Chadwick

SX4556 : View from Mount Pleasant - NW by N Chadwick

SX4655 : View from Mount Pleasant - ENE by N Chadwick

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