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Wevsky

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Right before i put the history up id like to explain this was visited at night..cold damp windy and nasty!didnt have the advantage of being able to see other possible routes as it really wasnt an easy route in..right that said visited with uncle bulgaria and nite walker..thx to a few bits of on mission info from the lads!!right the history..

Fort Burgoyne was originally known as Castle Hill Fort,I have over 200 pages of info on this site explaining historical background the history of the fort and description also details of current condition etc..but im not going to bore the crap out of you so ill just Quote a small section from the history …

Quote: Castle Hill Fort according to the Royal Commission was to be a polygonal work

with a ditch 36 feet wide at the bottom, flanked by one double and three single

caponiers, each of two tiers. The gorge ditch forms a re-entrant with casemated

flanks for guns and musketry. Scarps and counterscarps were cut into chalk

protected by a facing of concrete and flint work and well defiladed. The fort was

provided with a chemin des rondes below the crest of the rampart as well as a

covered way on the scarp of the ditch. Twenty-nine guns could be mounted on the

ramparts of which six were to be in Haxo casemates. At the right of the gorge two

guns were on the parade level covering a flank ditch connecting the East Wing

Battery with the main work. Twenty-six smaller pieces were to be placed in the

caponiers and flanking batteries. In the rear were the East and West Batteries for

four and five guns respectively with requisite magazine accommodation. They

were secured independently by ditches and connected by lines with the main work.

Bomb-proof casemates were under the main ramparts of the fort providing

accommodation for 7 officers and 270 men.

Construction started 18 June 1861, with a contract for the building of a casemated

barracks by civilian contractors at a total cost of £29,508, but the remainder of the

work was finally completed by military labour..End Quote

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Right considering the weather the time of night and fact obvious torch light in open areas wasnt a good idea best i could do really..thank you for looking :beer:

 
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Well me thinks you did bloody well without the considerations !

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Well me thinks you did bloody well without the considerations !:D
id love to get to some of the places we go during the day as the outside of this place is great ,but family constraints etc ,so we go at night and do best we can!!

 

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return visit is on the cards mid week dark time if you want mate (y)

 

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return visit is on the cards mid week dark time if you want mate (y)
dark is still good tho..no one can see us wandering around looking lost :lol:

 

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Well guys Im up for getting lost anytime, just txt me when you want to go !

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Well guys Im up for getting lost anytime, just txt me when you want to go !:cool:
in this weather we even cancelled dover this week..got one more thing in dover that needs to be done quickish then a return trip could be arranged...thing we wanna do is very weather dependant tho involves a fair old climb

 

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Dont mind climbing as long as it aint vertical with a sheer drop, I got plenty of mind over matter but do have an adversion to dying :lol:

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Dont mind climbing as long as it aint vertical with a sheer drop, I got plenty of mind over matter but do have an adversion to dying :lol: ;)
well its not vertical and as for the drop on the other side we wont know till we scale it ;)

 
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