Camber Castle

Camber Castle

Camber Castle is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts built to protect the huge Rye anchorage (gbmapping|TQ921184).

Between 1512 and 1514 Sir Edward Guldeford built a circular tower to defend the harbour. This tower was incorporated into a new fort which was built between 1539 and 1544. It was expanded to become a highly symmetrical artillery fort. The original tower was augmented with four outer towers linked by an octagonal wall concealing a covered passage. Finally, four large D-shaped bastions serving as gun platforms were placed in front of the earlier towers. As the shoreline receded south the height of the central tower was raised in order to maintain the range of the castle's cannon.

However by the end of the 16th century the silting of the Camber made the castle largely obsolete and in 1637 it was disbanded.

It is now owned by English Heritage after being taken over by the state in 1967 and is open to the public at weekends from July to September.

References

* [http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/england/camber/camber.php Camber Castle]

* Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, "The David & Charles Book of Castles", David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

ee also

*Eastbourne Redoubt
*Pevensey Castle

External links

* [http://www.wildrye.info/reserve/cambercastle/ Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - Information about Camber Castle]
* [http://www.fortified-places.com/camber.html Camber Castle at fortified-places.com]


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