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.- 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”“Sealand”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Felixstowe.
Roughs Tower
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Latitude
51.8944° or 51° 53′ 40″ north
Longitude
1.48254° or 1° 28′ 57″ east
Open location code
9F33VFVM+Q2
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place=isolated_dwelling
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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”
- Romanian: “Fort Roughs”
- 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.
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