Location: Dartmouth , Devon.
Photographer: Robert Hesketh
Keywords: Tourist Boats Coastal Historic Buildings/Sites Sea English Heritage
File Size: 54MB
View from coast path on the eastern bank of the River Dart near Kingswear across the River Dart estuary to the 15th century Dartmouth Castle with its innovative gun tower this Grade 1 listed building is open to the public through English Heritage behind the castle is St Petrox church & a Victorian lighthouse & tower facing out to sea are the squat heavily built Victorian casemates and batteries above is a low white building part of the World War Two refortification of Dartmouth housing a naval gun between them Dartmouth and Kingswear castles provided complete artillery coverage for the mouth of the Dart and secure anchorage with a chain boom stretching across the river to bar enemy shipping from sailing up the Dart to attack Dartmouth South Hams South West Devon South West England UK fort; artillery; fortification; navel defence; military architecture; warfare; Medieval; Middle Ages stone; stone built; slate; sandstone; masonry; gunports; scheduled ancient monument; EH; history; heritage; historic building; historic; Tudor; flags; parapet; embrasures; crenellated; crenellation; gunloops; wall; religion; religious; graveyard; churchyard; rocks; cliffs; trees; woods; shore; river mouth; sea; water; sailing; sail boat; traditional sailing boat; yacht; crew; seaside; sunshine; sunlight; sunny; vacation; holiday; travel; tourism; tourist attraction; coastal; coast; coastline; Coast Path; SWCP; walking; hiking; great outdoors; horizontal; landscape; seascape; Westcountry; West Country; SW England; English; British; Britain; Great Britain; GB; United Kingdom