western heights

1. The History Located in the Kent town of Dover, the Detached Bastion is part of the Western Heights, which were a series of forts, strong points and ditches. They were built to supplement the ageing medieval castle designed to protect the country from invasion. Located between the Drop Redoubt...

With the North Entrance being open only 2 weekends a year. Was a rare treat to be able to get on one of the tours (Having explored alot of the other forts and tunnels around Dover this was on the hadn't been able to get in list) the tour guide was brilliant and was a great explore. For context...

We st er n he ig ht s. I ’m s ur e 99 I’m sure 99% of people who have ever been to Dover has done this location. So a brief history of the western heights... and a pics at the end are of the location and layout of this location. The remains of the south entrance of western...

I went down to Western Heights in Dover the other day for a dog walk, I knew it had been sealed off but I fancied going and walking around the outside of it. I was walking under the second bridge right by the old drawbridge and saw a large memorial up for a young guy. I had a little search and...

Yes, this location has been explored by many. Its metaphorical, due to being very overgrown and not in the public eye- advertised by English Hertiage ownership. This fort is one of many forts across Britian that was built between the 18th and 19th century. The Western Heights, specifically, was...

The Citadel’s Southern Defences and Tenaille - Short Casemates and Long Casemates So what started as something seemingly quite easy myself and @The Wickerman had unknowingly embarked on what would become a 5 year long project of quite honestly the most physically and mentally demanding...

Went to Western Heights & found the entrance to this old military site. Walked round the moat(no water now). Lots of Graffiti every where, but very interesting. Hope you like the few photo's which we took.

So here it is my first visit to the north and south casemates and the Infamous pipe of terrorise arrived in Dover for sun rise and made our way to the casemates after a walk of about 45 minutes we arived at the destination and made our way through some prickly bushes and some thorns then the...

Most people know this one. It’s my first location and I can’t think of a better one. It includes the two storey caponier, two (wait no-three.) decaying drawbridges, the Devil’s tunnel, wells and pretty much everything you need in an explore apart from amo shafts and big magazine tunnels but I’m...

I originally visited this site back in June with my original exploring buddy, and we made a bit of a pickle out of it really; my tripod fell apart when I got it out, and the torch we had was terrible. I stuck a report up regardless, full of slightly out of focus subjects lit by flash, which I'm...

After our intrepid trip to the North and South Casemates my mate and I headed along the South of the Citadel, where I had a few places in mind that I wanted to check. First on the list was St Martin's Deep Shelter, unfortunately sealed. Second was Archcliffe Galleries, but having got distracted...

The casemates have been on my to do list for sometime, and when my old exploring buddy who stopped doing it back in July said he fancied something this weekend, it seemed like a great opportunity. Back when I had just started off we went looking for the casemates one day, with me guessing the...

Havnt posted a thing for ages so just a little one before i probs dissapear off the radar again! Right i posted a detached bastion report this is the north entrance leading onto the road that you see on the trail thru the moat going towards detached..Not going into history its Napoleonic as...

Dover - Western Heights This is gonna be a long one, so if you don't want to read, you can always just do the pictures! ;) "There's a ton of cool stuff in Dover". I'd heard this ever since I've started exploring, and everybody knows that Dover is full of tunnels - so I knew I was going to...