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| | Plymouth's premier attraction and venue. Crownhill Fort the day out for all the family. |
 | | Crownhill Fort was designed by Capt.E.F. Du Cane as the principal, and largest, fort of Plymouth's North-Eastern Defences, designed to defend the Royal Dockyard at Devonport from an attack by the French from the north of the city. |
 | | Crownhill, and its guns, were never put to the ultimate test as advances in artillery soon overtook it, and fortresses became obsolete. |
 | | Unlike many of the mid-Victorian forts in Plymouth and elsewhere, Crownhill was retained by the army for over a century, being used by a succession of infantry regiments when the Fort was used as HQ Plymouth Garrison, and therefore did not suffer any irreversible alterations. |
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