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Fort Regent

🇯🇪 Jersey · 19th century

Fort Regent in Jersey
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Fort Regent is a 19th-century fortification and leisure centre on Mont de la Ville (Town Hill), in St. Helier, Jersey. The fort is in close proximity to the fortified South Hill Engineers Barracks at La Collette and overlooks the 16th-century Elizabeth Castle and harbour to the west.

The fort's main features are substantial curtain walls, ditches, a glacis, redoubts, bastions, and redans (or demi-bastions). A parade ground was in the centre, which is now built upon and covered with a roof.

Text adapted from “Fort Regent” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Regent ranks #2,309 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #3 of the 4 mapped in Jersey. Founded 1806, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Jersey compares in the castle statistics.

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