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Crownhill Fort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (922 words) |
 | Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth. |
| Crownhill Fort was designed by Captain E.F. Du Cane as one of Lord Palmerston's last forts and was the largest of the forts of 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. |
| Crownhill Fort is famous for its impressive collection of artillery and its regular cannon firings, designed to represent the life of men based there in the 1890s by following the exact gun drill of the day. |
| Crownhill at AllExperts (221 words) |
| Crownhill was originally known as Knackersknowle, meaning "the hill of the knacker's yard". |
| The fort was one of many Palmerston Forts built around Plymouth under the instruction of the then Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, as a defence for the dockyard at Devonport against the French. |
| Crownhill Fort has now been restored as a tourist attraction and its guns are fired more often now then they ever were in anger. |
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