Fort Scraesdon is one of several of the Forts in Cornwall in the South East of the County which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, Plymouth docks from enemy naval attack. They were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of England. Map of the UK showing the location of Plymouth Sound at 50. ... Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (October 20, 1784 - October 18, 1865) was a British Prime Minister and Liberal politician. ...

Fort Scrasedon was designed in 1859 at a cost of £137,000. It is constructed in the Land Front, polygonal, near octagonal format. It has a dry ditch, and was designed to have 27 guns on the ramparts.^[1] A polygon (from the Greek poly, for many, and gonos, for angle) is a closed planar path composed of a finite number of sequential straight line segments. ... Octagonal was a champion New Zealand bred thoroughbred racehorse, affectionately called the big O. In 1995 Octagonal was crowned the Champion Australian Two Year Old. ...

The upper level is 254ft above mean sea level (AMSL) and the lower level is 173 feet AMSL. The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ...

The fort was used by the MOD as a training barracks, but it currently empty, derelict and overgrown. It is occasionally used by the Royal Marine Commandos as a strong point for them. Look up mod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

A military railway connected the fort with the River Lynher at St. Germans. It also provided a link to the main fort on the Rame peninsula at Fort Tregantle. The River Lynher flows through Cornwall, passing St Germans and enters Plymouth Sound at the Hamoaze. ... The Rame Peninsula (pronounced ) is a peninsula in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. ...

References

1. ^ South West Archaeological Research Framework (SWARF) [1]

External links

• Map sources for Fort Scraesdon
• Images of England Entry

Coordinates: 50.371876° N 4.262662° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...