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Henley Fort is a Victorian mobilisation centre at the eastern end of the Hog's Back ridge near Guildford, built in the 1880-90s to help protect London from the French army. It never fired a gun in war because it lacked men and munitions, yet volunteers met there monthly, drilled, and even made ammunition inside chalk walls chosen to resist explosion. During the Second World War the Home Guard used it for defence, and later local schools camped there for two weeks each year to walk Surrey. Today it remains an outdoor learning centre where young people still move through its quiet chambers, carrying forward the same purpose of gathering, training, and belonging.

Henley Fort is shown as a fort on the public map of Guildford. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Henley Fort was built by the Roman army during the 1st or 2nd century AD as part of a network of military installations in southern Britain. It is important as evidence of Roman military organization and the strategic defense of the region.

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