Commissioned in the mid 19th-century by Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary and then Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, Fort Picklecombe was one of a series of coastal forts built in defence of potential large scale enemy invasion by sea, particularly from France. Now holiday cottages.

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Location: Maker-With-Rame, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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