What is recorded here

Fort Paull is a pentagonal gun battery on the Humber that has watched the river since Henry VIII first put twelve guns there in 1542. The current Palmerston Fort was built in 1861–64, lost its guns at the start of the First World War because it stood too close to Hull, and later stored ammunition for Russian convoys during the Second World War. It became a museum in 2000, kept the last complete Blackburn Beverley, lost most of its contents at a 2020 auction, and reopened in September 2024 with a classic car weekend.

Fort Paull is shown as a fort on the public map of East Riding of Yorkshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Fort Paull was built by the English government in the early 17th century as a defensive structure to guard the Humber Estuary. It is remembered as one of a series of coastal forts constructed to protect against potential Spanish invasion.

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