Horse Sands was one of the four forts built under Prime Minister Henry John Temple's leadership in 1860, designed to defend the British coast from the French, but could now become luxury apartments or ...

Spitbank Fort is one of those spots you read about in an Alexander Dumas novel. It’s a gritty, grey, Victorian-era fortress with a dark past and nothing but miles of water on all sides. And it’s the ...

In 2017, British tech entrepreneur Mike Conner bought Thorne Island, a ruined 19th-century fort off the coast of ...

After a decade-long, £2 million restoration project, a former military fort on Wales' Thorne Island has been listed for sale as an 8,000-square-foot, fully off-grid private residence.

The abandoned Victorian fort – No 1, The Thames – in the Thames Estuary (All photos of the fort courtesy of Nigel Day) There’s all sorts you can do with an abandoned Victorian fort in the middle of ...

A Victorian fort and museum in Pembrokeshire is opening to the public for the first time and is appealing for volunteers to help run it. Chapel Bay Fort and Museum at Angle will open on 3 April after ...