fort burgoyne

The connecting ditch to the eastern outwork runs approximately south east from the eastern gorge of Fort Burgoyne (formerly known as Castle Hill Fort). A small two gun battery overlooked it. This battery is also a parallelogram with its longer sides running to the south. The central parade is...

This was the last of three sites that we did yesterday, more on the others later. Covered the history in my first report on the place, but we somehow missed the top of the Fort, perimeter, and some other bits then, plus I wasn't too happy with my photos. The second time my photos were better...

I cant find much history on these but they are 2 detached wing batteries to the East and West of Fort Burgoyne. They are connected by huge ditches and rather overgrown. The east outworks I would say was the easier 1 to access now that the western outworks has been blocked off. Still was a good...

Visited with The126 It was poring with rain and freezing cold so we decided to go for a wander on the hills surrounding Dover:rolleyes: Fort Burgoyne is one of the Palmerston forts built around Dover in the 1860's. This site was used and added to in WW2 with pillboxes and gun emplacements...

Visited with Monk and Chubs The fort was previously called Castle Hill fort and building started in 1861 to protect the landward flank of Dover Castle. The casemated barrack block, the caponiers, the parade ground, the outworks, batteries and flanking galleries were finished in 1864 but in...

Somehow ive always managed to over look this when in Dover, pushed to the bottom of the list because of lack of time or other explores cropping up, so when the126 text and said he was heading down to do Fort Burgoyne i jumped at the chance to join him. A rare sunny day we headed of, picking...

So after hitting up the Archcliffe Galleries (although not knowing that at the time), being denied at St Martin's, and going for a walk for a while in a dead end, new member Badger-Mole and I were going to call it quits for the day (he had some excuse about a revision for an exam or something...

Yup, heres a report - from me. Havent done one in a while, so thought i'd suprise everyone. Stayed at a friends to get up nice and early for this one, massive site so needed all day to get it all done!!! After a bacon sandwich, some biscuits from the petrol garage we were off and soon...

A follow on from my first trip reported on here where the history is also covered http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=66047 This was a great day with only one sightingof secca just as we were packing away which meant had to deal with the megaditch in the dark and wet again...

Fort Burgoyne is polygonal in shape with a 35 foot wide dry ditch around it. It was completed in 1868 at a total cost of £88,053. It was built to protect the rear of Dover Castle as it was felt that this was very open to attack. The Fort was also designed so that if it was overrun that it...

This i first visited in november 2010 with uncle bulgaria which it seems i didn't report on here..it was dark raining and tbh we had not much of an idea where to head!! So after 11 months was finally time for a revisit in blessed daylight..Yay daylight for navigation round the place..After...

Fort Burgoyne, well where to start. Attempted this one a few months back with no luck just wandered around in the dark for a few hours trying to get in. Anyway we gave up and i decided it was time for another go. So with the assistance of my brother in law Andy( he has yet to be christianed with...

Fort Burgoyne (originally called Castle Hill Fort) was one of the Palmerston follies built after the 1860’s to help protect against a possible French invasion – in this case it was bolstering up the defences of Dover Castle. The ramparts were used for guns in bomb-proof Haxo casemates for...

Visited in late December 08, Historical copypasta On with the piccies The stable blocks Can't wait to go again, can spend days there :thumb Shadow