Drop Redoubt Moats, SW Entrance, Dover UK

John Latter, on March 28, 2007, said:

The Southwestern (SW) Entrance to the Drop Redoubt moat system is along the bottom of the moat at the top of the steps.

The road in the foreground (known locally as Military Hill but properly North Military Road) is a bypass built in the 1960s. It now bisects the moat that once connected the Drop Redoubt to the twin bridges and tunnel of the North Entrance of the Western Heights.

Parking is available on the now-unused portion of the original North Military Road (behind the viewer).

The Southwestern Entrance is marked by a white cross in the center of the screen in this satellite view.

Details and image of the Southeast Entrance are here.

Details and image of the Southern Entrance are here.

Details of when the surface structures and insides of Drop Redoubt are open to the public can be found here.

Part of the Napoleonic defense system built along the Western Heights above the town of Dover.

John Latter, on April 9, 2007, said:

Standard Info:

The Drop Redoubt is only part of Dover's extensive Napoleonic defenses - click on Western Heights and then check the tag list for all the locations covered (eg Grand Shaft, North Entrance, North Center Bastion - more will be added as time goes on).

John Latter, on May 7, 2007, said:

Standard Info:

See the Satellite view of the Drop Redoubt annotated with moat entrance locations, surface structures, etc..

The Drop Redoubt is only part of Dover's extensive Napoleonic defenses - click on Western Heights and then check the tag list for all the locations covered (eg North Centre Bastion, Grand Shaft, North Entrance - more will be added as time goes on).

Also see St Martin's Battery

Work began on Dover's Western Heights fortifications in the 1770s and was intensified, first in the early 1800s because of Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte), and again in the mid-Nineteenth Century because of Napoleon III (originally known as Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte).