Bowden Fort
Bowden Fort is a former 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport.Photo: Gwyn Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Fort
- Description: architectural structure in City of Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bowden Battery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forder Battery and Derriford Hospital.
Forder Battery
Fort
Forder Battery is a former 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Forder Battery is situated 1,800 feet east of Bowden Fort.
Derriford Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Derriford Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, England. The hospital serves Plymouth and nearby areas of Devon and Cornwall. It also provides tertiary cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, renal transplant surgery, and immunology/allergy for the whole of the South West Peninsula. Derriford Hospital is situated 4,200 feet north of Bowden Fort.
Fort Austin
Fort
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort Austin is a former 19th-century Fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was built to defend the landward approaches to the North East of Plymouth. Fort Austin is situated 4,000 feet southeast of Bowden Fort.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eggbuckland and Hartley.
Eggbuckland
Suburb
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggbuckland is a suburb of the city of Plymouth, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Before the Second World War Eggbuckland was a small village a few miles north of Plymouth.
Hartley
Suburb
Photo: Andrew Hackney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hartley is a suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. It is built on higher ground offering views south towards the sea, east into the South Hams, north over Dartmoor and west to Cornwall.
Estover
Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Estover is a district in Devon, England, within the Plymouth boundary area. The original hamlet was extensively developed during the 1970s, into what became back then a large housing estate, consisting almost entirely of council houses, situated five miles northeast of Plymouth city centre in the English county of Devon.
Bowden Fort
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.4056° or 50° 24′ 20″ northLongitude
-4.11744° or 4° 7′ 3″ westOpen location code
9C2QCV4M+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 4941827436OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortWikidata ID
Q17663581
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