Hand-tinted plan of Landguard Fort and surrounds, showing proposed entrenchment (A-A-A) and proposed extension of inundation (B-B), with a section on the line C-D, and a line showing the track of a vessel entering the harbour.

Date:
Jul 1779
Location:
Landguard Fort, View Point Road, Felixstowe, East Suffolk, Suffolk
Reference:
MP/LAF0001
Type:
Measured Drawing
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Description

The plan also has the following note: "The coast from the Andrews to the Right Flank of the Intrenchment cannot be approached nearer than Random Shot Distance (on Account of the Flats) by any Vessel of Force. The only Track for Men of War to pass thro' to hurt the Left Flank is very narrow, between the Fort and the Alter Rock, in the Direction shown in the Plan". The plan has the monogram Thomas Hyde Page Esquire in the bottom right hand corner.

Content

This is part of the Volume: PF/LAF Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, Suffolk.; within the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans And Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

UNCERTAIN

Keywords

Post Medieval Artillery Fort, Post Medieval Coastal Battery, Post Medieval Bastion Trace Fort