Fortress
Fort Regent
🇯🇪 Jersey · 19th century
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 #3,640 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #3 of the 4 mapped in Jersey. Founded 1806, it is older than 12% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 607 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,566 times in the last 60 days, more than 61% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Jersey compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Fort Regent?
Fort Regent stands in Jersey, at 49.1813°, -2.1059°.
When was Fort Regent built?
The atlas dates its founding to 1806. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Fort Regent?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #3,640 of 8,134 worldwide, and #3 in Jersey. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort Regent?
Elizabeth Castle, about 2 km away.
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