England · Restored
Landguard Fort
Landguard Fort is a coastal fort at the mouth of the River Orwell outside Felixstowe, built from the 16th century and repeatedly rebuilt to defend Harwich Harbour. It retains 18th- and 19th-century bastioned works together with 20th-century concrete gun emplacements and wartime control rooms. The site is now conserved by English Heritage and open to the public.
First raised
1540
Its prime
1944
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1944
The shape it held in its prime.
A low, broad coastal fort on a narrow peninsula, its pentagonal bastioned trace of thick masonry and earth ramparts fronting the river, with a river-facing line of casemated gun embrasures and a distinctive bombproof caponier with a rounded nose. Raised keep-like barrack blocks occupy the inner ward. 20th-century concrete emplacements and blocky observation posts with flat overhanging roofs, external concrete staircases and metal railings punctuate the skyline; surfaces are masonry and rough concrete, rooflines mostly flat and blastproof.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1944.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Landguard Fort — including 5 interiors: left battery 10-inch gun pit / anti-aircraft operations room, plot room / coast artillery headquarters, keep-like barracks and inner ward and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Landguard Fort with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1944 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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