{"id":2189,"date":"2015-05-09T20:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2015-05-09T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T20:42:39","slug":"landguard-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Landguard Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landguard_8625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landguard_8625.jpg\" alt=\"Landguard casemates\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landguard_8625.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landguard_8625-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> The Landguard Fort lies near the end of a spit of land near the Port of Felixtowe. There have been several forts on this site, but the present one is of 18th and 19th century construction, with a few 20th century additions. The 18th century fort was pentagonal, but two sides of this were replaced in the 1870&#8217;s by a curved bastion containing heavy guns, plus a semicircular building enclosing the centre parade ground.<br \/>\nThe fort has had various uses, including as a control point for mining the estuary in the Victorian period, as part of extensive port defences in WWI, and as a Fire Command Headquarters in WWII. During WWII the defences included 6&#8243; guns.<br \/>\nThe fort&#8217;s usage declined after the war, closing by the 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The fort makes a very interesting visit. All parts can be explored, and an audio guide is available. One of the casemates contains a huge replica gun. Visit time ~ 3 hours.<br \/>\nOutside the fort, the Felixtowe Museum occupies the former mining building, and the beach, visitor centre and nature reserve are nearby.<br \/>\nThe approach to the fort runs between the nature reserve and the modern Port of Felixtowe with its cranes and container ships. There is parking outside the fort and a little further on at the visitor centre. The parking can fill up at peak times e.g. sunny bank holidays.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2199\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landguard_8599.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landguard_8599-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Landguard inner gateway\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inner gateway<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2200\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Landguard_8602.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Landguard_8602-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Landguard from beach\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landguard from beach<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Landguard Fort lies near the end of a spit of land near the Port of Felixtowe. There have been several forts on this site, but the present one is of 18th and 19th century construction, with a few 20th century additions. The 18th century fort was pentagonal, but two sides of this were replaced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Landguard Fort&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}