Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
West Blockhouse Fort
Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Fort
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1959
- Community
- Dale
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.68839, -5.15795
- SAM number
- PE335
- Cadw record number
- 2062
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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.
The monument is comprised of buried features and earthworks representing a fort built in 1854-7 as part of the Palmerston fortification of Milford Haven. The building has been converted to holiday accomodation and is Grade II* listed and exculded from the scheduled area. However the grounds of the fort, including the gun platform and defensive wall are retained as a scheduled monument.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of 20th century military organisation. The monument forms an important element within the wider context of the military history of Wales and the structures may contain well preserved archaeological evidence concerning chronology, layout and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- West Blockhouse FortDefenceunder 1 mi
- Veronica CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dale Point Promontory Fort (Defences)Promontory Fort - coastal1 mi
- Dale Point Fort (Unoccupied Parts)Fort1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.