Château à l'Étoc

Château à L'Étoc
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Creation time :	1855
Castle type :	Coastal fort
Conservation status:	ruin
Construction:	Ashlar
Place:	Saint Anne
Geographical location	49 ° 43 '53.3 "  N , 2 ° 10' 41.1"  W Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '53.3 "  N , 2 ° 10' 41.1"  W.
Height:	8  m ASL

Château à L'Étoc is the ruin of a Victorian coastal fort on the northern tip of the Channel Island of Alderney . It was built on a headland and completed in 1855.

The fort was designed to hold 23 cannons and a garrison of 128 men. It was supposed to serve as protection for the eastern arm of a breakwater , which, however, was never built. Château à L'Etoc was built on a Stone Age burial site, and a Guernsey archaeologist was enraged by the way the builders simply threw bones and artifacts over the cliffs into the sea.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Colin Partridge, Trevor Davenport: The Fortifications of Alderney . Alderney Publishers, Saint Anne. ISBN 0-9517156-0-7 . Pp. 70-71.
2. ↑ James Marr: Bailiwick Bastions . Guernsey Press. ISBN 0-902550-11-X . P. 84.

Web links

• Photos of Victorian forts on Alderney.