“No Man’s Fort and Spitbank Fort are among four armour-plated Solent Forts commissioned by Prime Minister Lord Palmerston in 1865 as a line of defence against Napoleon III’s forces. These artificial ‘granite islands’ were completed in 1880—at a cost of £1,177,805— after the threat of invasion had passed, though they weren’t fully decommissioned until the 1950s.”The forts have been restored as unusual boutique stays.
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