Roughs Tower
HM Fort Roughs is one of several World War II installations that were designed by Guy Maunsell and known collectively as His Majesty's Forts or as Maunsell Sea Forts; the purpose of which was to guard the port of Harwich, Essex, and more broadly, the Thames estuary.- Type: Dwelling
- Description: Maunsell navy fort off the coasts of Suffolk and Essex, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Fort Rough Sands”, “Fort Roughs”, “Her Majesty’s Fort Roughs”, “His Majesty’s Fort Roughs”, “HM Fort Roughs”, and “Sealand”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Felixstowe.
Felixstowe
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Felixstowe is a major port and 'garden resort' on the east coast of England, in the county of Suffolk. Felixstowe is long past its heyday as a tourist resort, and is best visited now as a place to enjoy some seaside calm.
Roughs Tower
- Categories: Maunsell fort, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8944° or 51° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
1.48254° or 1° 28′ 57″ eastOpen location code
9F33VFVM+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5703209919OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwellingWikidata ID
Q4110607
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Satellite Map
Discover Roughs Tower from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Roughs Tower” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بادي روي باتس”
- Belarusian: “Гісторыя Сілэнда”
- Catalan: “Fort Roughs”
- Chinese: “怒涛堡垒”
- Chinese: “怒涛塔”
- Chinese: “怒濤堡壘”
- Chinese: “怒濤塔”
- French: “Fort Roughs”
- German: “Fort Roughs”
- German: “HM Fort Roughs”
- Italian: “HM Fort Roughs”
- Japanese: “フォート・ラフス”
- Korean: “러프 요새”
- Malay: “HM Fort Roughs”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rough Tower”
- Russian: “платформа Рафс-Тауэр”
- Spanish: “HM Fort Roughs”
- Tatar: “Рафс-Тавер платформасы”
- Vietnamese: “HM Fort Roughs”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sealand Chapel and Walton Castle.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Latimer House and Fludyer Arms.
Suffolk: Must-Visit Destinations
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