What is recorded here

Sandgate Castle 1539 stands as a castle marker in Folkestone and Hythe, England. The exact chamber, room or living edge is not known, but the name and location are clear. A person may have breathed there, watched the sea or tended a flame before the chamber was lost. The castle remains identifiable even when its visible form has faded.

Sandgate Castle 1539 is shown as a castle on the public map of Folkestone and Hythe. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Sandgate Castle was built in 1539 by Henry VIII as part of his Device programme to defend the south coast of England against potential French or Spanish invasion. It is remembered as one of the so-called "knoll castles," a series of coastal fortifications that played a key role in England's 16th-century military strategy.

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