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Maunsell Forts

The Maunsell Forts are towers built in the and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the . They were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer, Guy Maunsell.
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  • Type: Fortification
  • Description: small, fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries
  • Also known as: “Maunsell fort” and “Maunsell Navy Fort ‘Tongue Sands’”

Maunsell Forts

Latitude
51.49861° or 51° 29′ 55″ north
Longitude
1.36972° or 1° 22′ 11″ east
Open location code
9F33F9X9+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 990553723
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fortification
Wiki­data ID
Q1911186
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Maunsell Forts” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حصون مونسيل البحرية”
  • Chinese: “默恩塞尔海洋堡垒”
  • Chinese: “默恩塞爾海洋堡壘”
  • Czech: “Maunsellovy pevnosti”
  • Dutch: “Maunsell forten”
  • Dutch: “Maunsell Forts”
  • Dutch: “Maunsell Sea Forts”
  • Dutch: “Maunsell-forten”
  • Dutch: “Shivering Sands”
  • Esperanto: “Maraj fortikaĵoj Maunsell”
  • French: “forts Maunsell”
  • French: “Forts Maunsell”
  • German: “Knock John”
  • German: “Maunsell Fort”
  • German: “Maunsell Forts”
  • German: “Maunsell Sea Fort”
  • German: “Red Sands”
  • Hebrew: “מצודות מאונסל”
  • Hungarian: “Maunsell-féle tengeri erőd”
  • Italian: “fortezze marittime Maunsell”
  • Italian: “Fortezze marittime Maunsell”
  • Italian: “Maunsell Sea Forts”
  • Japanese: “マンセル要塞”
  • Malay: “Kubu Maunsell”
  • Polish: “Forty Maunsella”
  • Spanish: “fortalezas marinas Maunsell”
  • Spanish: “Fortalezas Marinas Maunsell”
  • Turkish: “Maunsell tipi kale”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Maunsell Forts”. Photo: Russss, CC BY-SA 3.0.