Dartmouth Castle

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Dartmouth Castle is one of a pair of forts, the other being Kingswear Castle, that guard the mouth of the Dart Estuary in Devon, England.

The castle comprises two towers — one round and one square — and sections of wall, the whole of which is built upon a rocky promotory, very close to the water's edge. A church, St Petroc's, is immediately adjacent to the structure.

The castle has its origins in the fourteenth century but was substantially rebuilt in the late fifteenth century, when it was redesigned specifically to accommodate guns by Henry VIII. The structure continued in use as a working fort until the nineteenth century and was altered on a number of occasions, in order to accommodate new military technology.

Dartmouth Castle is in the ownership of English Heritage.