Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chapel Bay Fort
Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Angle, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Fort (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Fort
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Community
- Angle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.69059, -5.09920
- SAM number
- PE333
- Cadw record number
- 2060
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Late 19th century rectangular (in plan) fort on the edge of the cliff, with a deep revetted ditch on three sides flanked by two polyground caponeres provided with loops for musketry. The open batter was thoroughly remodelled in the 1900s for heavier guns and remained in service until the end of World War I. It was dismantled and sold in 1932.
Magazines are below the battery and two ranges of single story barracks behind.
Nearby in the register
- Chapel Bay FortDefenceunder 1 mi
- Chapel Bay CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chapel Bay CottagesDefenceunder 1 mi
- 35Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.