Newhaven Fort restoration
This iconic East Sussex fortress will be closed until early 2025 as it undergoes a comprehensive £7.5 million restoration
In 1860, Prime Minister Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple) commissioned the Palmerston Forts after the Royal Navy Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom shared concerns about the French Navy. The forts became the most costly and extensive system of fixed defences in British peacetime. Commentators named them Palmerston’s Follies due to their obsolete guns and doubts over whether the French Navy was actually a threat.
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