page_title: West Blockhouse Fort
section_title: West Blockhouse
hierarchical_section_title: West Blockhouse Fort / History / West Blockhouse
caption_attribution_description: English: West Blockhouse Point This structure is situated on the Dale Peninsula and was originally built during the Napoleonic Wars, later it was used as a lookout post by the military up to the Second World War.
context_page_description: West Blockhouse Fort is a mid-19th century coastal artillery fort at West Blockhouse Point, a rocky headland near Dale, Pembrokeshire, to the west of Milford Haven in Wales.
context_section_description: The site of the present fort was previously occupied by a disused blockhouse which had been built by order of King Henry VIII as part of a national fortification programme initiated in 1539. It was called West Blockhouse; a corresponding but uncompleted gun tower on the other side of the Milford Haven Waterway near Angle was called East Blockhouse. West Blockhouse was demolished in preparation for the construction of the present fort and there are no visible remains.
caption: A view of West Blockhouse Fort from the Milford Haven Waterway.
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