Palmerston Forts

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The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures built during the Victorian period on the recommendations of the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. The name comes from their association with Lord Palmerston, who was Prime Minister at the time and promoted the idea.

The works were also known as Palmerston's Follies as, by the time they were completed the threat (if it had ever existed) had passed and furthermore the technology of the guns had become out-of-date.

The defenses were built to defend a number of key areas of the British, Irish and Channel Island coastline, in particular areas around military bases, including:

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