Fortress
Horse Sand Fort
ENG England · 19th century
Horse Sand Fort or Horse Sands Fort is one of the larger Royal Commission sea forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The fort is one of four built as part of the Palmerston Forts constructions. It is 200 feet (61 m) across, built between 1865 and 1880, with two floors and a basement and armour-plated all round.
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Horse Sand Fort ranks #2,217 of 3,709 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #150 of the 160 mapped in England. Founded 1888, it is older than 5% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 226 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how England compares in the castle statistics.
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