Fort Houmet Herbe

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Fort Houmet Herbe
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Creation time : 1850s
Castle type : Coastal fort
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Ashlar
Place: Saint Anne
Geographical location 49 ° 43 '31.8 "  N , 2 ° 9' 31.2"  W Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '31.8 "  N , 2 ° 9' 31.2"  W.
Height: 0  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference

Fort Houmet Herbe is the ruin of a Victorian fort on a small rocky island off the northeast tip of the channel island of Alderney . It belongs to the Eastern Forts and was created in the 1850s.

The fort was equipped with 5 cannons on 4 towers.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Colin Partridge, Trevor Davenport: The Fortifications of Alderney . Alderney Publishers, Saint Anne. ISBN 0-9517156-0-7 . Pp. 72-81.

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