Martello tower
A Martello tower is a type of small defensive fort that was built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars onwards.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Historical site
- Description: small defensive fort
- Also known as: “Martello Tower” and “Martello Towers”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Folkestone Roman Villa and Martello Tower No. 2.
Folkestone Roman Villa
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Folkestone Roman Villa, also referred to as the East Bay Site, is a villa built during the Roman Occupation of Britain, and is located in East Wear Bay near the port town of Folkestone, in Kent, England. Folkestone Roman Villa is situated 390 feet east of Martello tower.
Martello Tower No. 1
Tower
Photo: Helmut Zozmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Martello Tower No. 1 is situated 1,200 feet north of Martello tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capel-le-Ferne and Old Hawkinge.
Capel-le-Ferne
Village
Capel-le-Ferne is a village and civil parish on the White Cliffs of Dover, near Folkestone in the Dover district, in Kent, England. Its name derives from a medieval French term meaning "chapel in the ferns".
Old Hawkinge
Village
Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill. Old Hawkinge is situated 2 miles north of Martello tower.
Sandgate
Village
Photo: Jamesedits, Public domain.
Sandgate is a village in the Folkestone and Hythe Urban Area in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It had a population of 4,225 at the 2001 census. Sandgate is situated 2½ miles southwest of Martello tower.
Martello tower
- Categories: type of building, battery tower, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Folkestone, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Martello tower” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Martellotoring”
- Basque: “Martello dorrea”
- Catalan: “Torre Martello”
- Chinese: “圆形石堡”
- Chinese: “馬泰羅塔”
- Chinese: “馬特洛塔”
- Danish: “Martellotårn”
- Dutch: “Martellotoren”
- Esperanto: “Martello-turoj”
- Estonian: “Martello torn”
- Finnish: “Martello-torni”
- French: “tour Martello”
- French: “Tour Martello”
- German: “Martello-Turm”
- Hebrew: “מגדלי מרטלו”
- Hungarian: “Martello-torony”
- Italian: “Torre Martello”
- Japanese: “マーテロー塔”
- Latin: “Turris Mortella”
- Latvian: “Martello tornis”
- Lithuanian: “Martelas”
- Macedonian: “мартело”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “martellotårn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Martellotårn”
- Norwegian: “Martellotårn”
- Polish: “Martello tower”
- Polish: “Wieża Martello”
- Russian: “Мартелло”
- Slovenian: “Martello tower”
- Slovenian: “Martello”
- Slovenian: “martellski stolp”
- Slovenian: “Martellski stolp”
- Spanish: “martello”
- Spanish: “Martello”
- Tagalog: “Toreng Martello”
- Turkish: “Martello kulesi”
- Ukrainian: “Башти Мартелло”
- Welsh: “tŵr Martelo”
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