Sandown Castle (Kent)
Sandown Castle is a ruined fortress near Deal in Kent in Great Britain . The fortress was built around 1540 as part of King Henry VIII's coastal fortifications . built and secured together with Deal and Walmer Castle to the south of the stretch of beach on The Downs . The concentric fortress consisted of a central tower and four surrounding semicircular bastions, similar to Walmer Castle. A dry trench ran around the facility. By coastal erosion of the sea in 1785 broke through the outer wall grave, but still during the Napoleonic wars, the facility served as a coastal fortification. Around 1900 the fortress was destroyed by the surf, the remaining stones were inserted into a concrete dyke for bank reinforcement in 1989. Only a few stones still mark the layout of the former fortress.
The remains of the fortress, protected as a Scheduled Monument , are located on the A258 north of Deal and are freely accessible.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 18.2 " N , 1 ° 24 ′ 7.9" E