History:
Woodland (or Woodlands) Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth, England. Currently owned by Plymouth City Council, the site is in use but largely derelict
Woodland Fort is one of the Palmerston Forts that form Plymouth's north eastern defences, whose purpose was to defend the Royal Dockyard at Devonport from the possibility of a French attack, under the leadership of Napoleon III. Designed by Captain (later Maj General) Edmund Frederick Du Cane,[1] it was built by George Baker and Company and finished by the Royal Engineers.
It was released by the military in 1920,[2] and eventually became Grade II listed.
and is currently on Historic Englands' Buildings at Risk Register.
The explore:
This was our first location of our 2021 road trip to Cornwall. Obvisouly stopping shy of Cornwall, in the lovley city of Plymouth. Arriving late to the pin it really only left us with a quick hours walk of the place. With not a soul in sight we just got on with it. Looking back at this explore we missed a key window in the fort on the exterior/moat side. Who knows what lay in there... a revisit could be possible if im ever that far south again. Anyway heres the phone pics i snapped below in no particular order.
Woodland (or Woodlands) Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth, England. Currently owned by Plymouth City Council, the site is in use but largely derelict
Woodland Fort is one of the Palmerston Forts that form Plymouth's north eastern defences, whose purpose was to defend the Royal Dockyard at Devonport from the possibility of a French attack, under the leadership of Napoleon III. Designed by Captain (later Maj General) Edmund Frederick Du Cane,[1] it was built by George Baker and Company and finished by the Royal Engineers.
It was released by the military in 1920,[2] and eventually became Grade II listed.
and is currently on Historic Englands' Buildings at Risk Register.
The explore:
This was our first location of our 2021 road trip to Cornwall. Obvisouly stopping shy of Cornwall, in the lovley city of Plymouth. Arriving late to the pin it really only left us with a quick hours walk of the place. With not a soul in sight we just got on with it. Looking back at this explore we missed a key window in the fort on the exterior/moat side. Who knows what lay in there... a revisit could be possible if im ever that far south again. Anyway heres the phone pics i snapped below in no particular order.
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