Fort Albert

Fort Albert is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs south-west of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight, England. It was also known as Cliff End Fort, named after the Northern extremity of Colwell Bay.

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Type: Apartment building
Description: tower fort on the Isle of Wight, England, UK
Also known as: “Cliff End Fort”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hurst Point Lighthouse and Fort Victoria.

Hurst Point Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Hertzsprung, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hurst Point Lighthouse is located at Hurst Point in the English county of Hampshire, and guides vessels through the western approaches to the Solent. Hurst Point Lighthouse is situated 1 mile northwest of Fort Albert.

Fort Victoria

Castle

Photo: Ranger Steve, Public domain.

Fort Victoria is a former military fort on the Isle of Wight, England, built to guard the Solent. The earliest fort on the site was a coastal fort known as Sharpenode Bulwark built in 1545–1547 by Henry VIII, but these defences had fallen into disrepair by the 17th century. Fort Victoria is situated 3,800 feet northeast of Fort Albert.

Norton Grange

Hotel

Norton Grange is a country house near Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Norton Grange is situated 1 mile east of Fort Albert.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colwell Bay and Norton Green.

Colwell Bay

Village

Photo: Debnigo, CC BY 3.0.

Colwell Bay is a bay in the west of the Isle of Wight. It is located between the towns of Totland and Yarmouth. The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle situated at the end of a long peninsula just under a mile to the northwest.

Norton Green

Hamlet

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Norton Green is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight. It is located just north of Freshwater in the west of the island.

Totland

Village

Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Totland is a village, civil parish and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight. Besides the village of Totland, the civil parish comprises the western tip of the Isle of Wight, and includes The Needles, Tennyson Down and the hamlet of Middleton.

Fort Albert

Categories: fort, building, and residential building
Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.70029° or 50° 42′ 1″ north

Longitude

-1.53454° or 1° 32′ 4″ west

Open location code

9C2WPF28+45

OpenStreetMap ID

way 150187180

OpenStreetMap feature

building=apartments

Wikidata ID

Q5470711

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to German—“Fort Albert” goes by many names.

Chinese: “阿爾伯特堡壘”
German: “Fort Albert”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Colwell Bay and Fort Victoria Model Railway.

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