Old Fort Ruins
Old Fort Ruins is a building in England, United Kingdom. Old Fort Ruins is situated nearby to the apartment building Fort Albert, as well as near the beach Colwell Bay.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Albert and Fort Victoria.
Fort Albert
Apartment building
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. Fort Albert is situated 630 feet west of Old Fort Ruins.
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 3,400 feet northeast of Old Fort Ruins.
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 Old Fort Ruins.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norton Green and Colwell Bay.
Norton Green
Hamlet
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Norton Green is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight. It is located just north of Freshwater in the west of the island.
Colwell Bay
Village
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.
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.
Old Fort Ruins
- Type: Building
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.69993° or 50° 41′ 60″ northLongitude
-1.53189° or 1° 31′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C2WMFX9+X6OpenStreetMap ID
way 558306132OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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