Category:Forts in the United Kingdom

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Most of the forts in this category were built between the 16th and 20th centuries. In the United Kingdom the term fort superseded the term castle in the Tudor period when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves.

See also:

• Castles in the United Kingdom which contains articles about many castles of the 11th to 16th centuries, and some later non-military buildings styled as castles.
• Archaeological sites in the United Kingdom which contains articles about Anglo-Saxon, Roman and early British forts.