Fort Clonque
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 Entrance to Fort Clonque |
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| Creation time : | 1855 | |
| Castle type : | Coastal fort | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Saint Anne | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 42 '49.2 " N , 2 ° 13' 57.3" W | |
| Height: | 5 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Fort Clonque is a Victorian fort west of the Channel Island of Alderney . It was built in 1855 on a rock that is connected to the island by a dam . This dam can be flooded at high tide.
The fort was garrisoned by 50 men and armed with more than ten cannons, mostly 68 pounders. Although the fort was built at a time when the strength of the French Navy was raising concerns in Britain, neither of these cannons was ever fired in a conflict. In 1929 the fort was decommissioned and sold by the British Crown for £ 27.
Scenes from the film Seagulls Over Sorrento were filmed at Fort Clonque in 1953.
The fort fell into disrepair until the Landmark Trust took it into its administration in 1966. Today it is a holiday home for up to 13 people.
Individual evidence
- ^ Colin Partridge, Trevor Davenport: The Fortifications of Alderney . Alderney Publishers, Saint Anne. ISBN 0-9517156-0-7 . Pp. 48-49.
- ↑ James Marr: Bailiwick Bastions . Guernsey Press. ISBN 0-902550-11-X . P. 79.
- ↑ Derry Brabbs: Landmark Cottages, Castles, and Curiosities of Britain (in the care of the Landmark Trust) in Country Series No. 42 . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. ISBN 0-297-82299-3 .
