Fort Burgoyne, Dover, July 2012

Visited with chubs and Monk

The fort was previously called Castle Hill fort and building started in 1861 to protect the landward flank of Dover Castle. The casemated barrack block, the caponiers, the parade ground, the outworks, batteries and flanking galleries were finished in 1864 but in 1869-1870 wing batteries and more battery fortifications were built. During the two world wars, pillboxes, gun eplacements, anti tank emplacements and blast wars were constructed.
The Fort is the only Royal Commission initiated land fort in Kent.


The place is huge, much more to see than google earth suggests

Parade ground and barrack rooms


gun emplacements on top of the barracks


Inside a barrack room




Old wrought iron gates at the entrance to a tunnel that leads to the north west caponier




Inside the caponier








Two level barracks


inside some barrack rooms


Mickey and Donald


Concrete blast walls built in WW2






North East caponier

wicked place ,,great pics ,i love this part of the world ,,the castle and tunnel system cracking report

Its hard to believe how big the site is,great photos.

Some great atmospheric shots there, thanks for sharing

thanks, nice shots there.

Cheers for the comments, this is my new favourite Dover explore!

good shots dude! was a laugh climbing up the moat eh!
thinking about a return in spetember, my mate wants to see it too!
you up for it?

chubs said:

good shots dude! was a laugh climbing up the moat eh!
thinking about a return in spetember, my mate wants to see it too!
you up for it?

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Yeah the moat was fun! Am up for a revisit just depends when

nice pics, do love a bit of fort porn just watched ''age of heroes'' (danny dyer, shaun beane) where fort was used in the film at the begining..

richy142 said:

nice pics, do love a bit of fort porn just watched ''age of heroes'' (danny dyer, shaun beane) where fort was used in the film at the begining..

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Cheers,
I'll have to give that film a watch

Great pics thanks for posting,

Brings back memories ,, i was based in Connaught Barracks, in the early 80s,, when on guard duty ,, we went up there for a skive ,,

great shots