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Cawsands Battery

Cawsand Battery, also known as Cawsand Bay Battery or Cawsand Fort, is a former coastal fortification. The Grade II listed Link

fort lies between the villages of Kingsand and Cawsand southwest of Plymouth on the Rame Peninsula.
The battery was part of a fortification built in 1860 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom around Plymouth and on the Rame peninsula to protect Plymouth and the Devonport naval base from enemy attacks. The Cawsand Battery should prevent together with the northern Fort Fort Picklecombe the entry of enemy ships into the Cawsand Bay.
During the test firing of the guns allegedly so many windowpanes shattered in the villages below the fort, that the guns were never fired afterwards again. The guns also quickly became obsolete after the completion of the fort, but were not replaced by more modern ones. In 1903 they were finally dismantled, then the fort was used until 1926 military. Subsequently, the plant decayed until it was converted from 1974 to private apartments. The former fort is privately inhabited today and cannot be visited.

by N Chadwick

Created: Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Updated: Sat, 25 Nov 2017

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