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Forder Battery rose beside Plymouth in the 1860s to guard the dockyard, yet housing soon swallowed its gun positions and expense magazines. The surviving earth and masonry still mark the line where steel once pointed outward, while domestic life filled the spaces built to resist invasion.

Forder Battery is shown as a fort on the public map of Plymouth. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Forder Battery was built by the British government in the mid-19th century as part of the defensive fortifications of Plymouth. It is remembered as an example of Victorian coastal artillery defences designed to protect the strategic Royal Navy port.

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