Fortress sights in England - Sort by: One of London's four World
Heritage Sites (joining Westminster Abbey, Kew Gardens and
Maritime Greenwich), the Tower offers a window on to a gruesome
and quite compelling history. In the 1070s, William the
Conqueror started work on the White Tower to replace the castle
he'd previously had built here. By 1285, two walls with towers
and a moat were built around it and the defences have barely
been altered since. A former royal residence, treasury, mint and
arsenal, it became most famous as a prison when Henry VIII moved
to Whitehall Palace in 1529 and started meting out his preferred
brand of punishment. The most striking building is indeed the
central White Tower, with its… This small military museum
occupies one of the 77 strongholds built in the early 19th
century to defend the south coast from Napoleon's planned
invasion. Around 6 miles east of the centre, along the A1033,
Fort Paull is a grand, lavishly restored fort. The 1860s
structure, with its underground labyrinth