Exploring A Swamped ABANDONED Fort!

In this explore, we take a look at Cliffe Fort along the south east coastline.
In this explore we take a look at Cliffe Fort on the coast of Essex, England.
The Fort is a disused artillery fort built in the 1860s. Its primary purpose was to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attacks, specifically from the French.
Its location on marshy ground caused problems from the start and necessitated changes to its design after the structure begin to crack and subside during construction.
The fort was equipped with a variety of large-caliber artillery guns which were intended to support two other nearby Thames-side forts. A launcher for the Brennan torpedo-which has been described as the world's first practical guided missile-was installed there at the end of the 19th century but was only in active use for a few years. It could strike targets up to 2000 yards away at a maximum speed of 31MPH.
The Fort saw just upwards of half a century of usage as an artillery fort. It was decommissioned in 1927. During WW2, It was repurposed to serve as an anti-aircraft battery on the approaches to London.
Join us on the adventure as we trek through and navigate the various obstacles along the way!
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[@jacqueline7986]

❤Always Love your Explores very Detailed,thanks for the intro appreciated, full of knowledge historical war forts are Epic, long treck worth every minute,glad to see Alex, Ed,Ray along with mates for the day Thanks Steve😊

[@ExploringWithin]

Definitely a nice adventure! Thanks for watching 🙏

[@columbo7927]

Nice walkabout interesting explore folks Thank you very much Cheers Steve

[@user-ju4rc6yg4s]

Excellent explore Thanks Steve Enjoyed

[@ExploringWithin]

Thanks 👍

[@gail727]

Really enjoyed that video. Great to see you altogether having fun. Thanks guys xx

[@annclements4829]

Love you and the old gang together, it's epic ❤ Really hope this is not the last time we see you Steve 😢 take care and hopefully will see you really soon xx

[@ExploringWithin]

Definitely good to be out altogether on an adventure! While my videos will come to an end at the end of the year you may still see me on the others channels, I just won’t be filming.

[@kathpayne4364]

Sad news but we'll have to make the most of the explores until then.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Seen this on another channel but re watched its a good one ..

[@sharonleong7120]

I love it once again. Thanks Steve . 👍👍👍😍😍😍

[@kathpayne4364]

Really enjoyed this explore Steve, interesting place. Great to see you all out together again. Awesome drone flight.

[@ExploringWithin]

Thanks Glad you enjoyed it 🙏

[@user-cc9cc6sx1k]

What a place! Reminds of one of the battle scenes in the Uncharted game on PlayStation. Great to see everyone together. Looks like you had a great time! …..just got to bit where you said same thing about Uncharted 😂😂

[@ExploringWithin]

Definitely looks like uncharted! Glad you enjoyed

[@jimmime]

205 year old fort! It seems the only one missing from that crew was, Matt. Getting there was half the fun, thanks, Steve, and all the rest of the crew

[@ExploringWithin]

Glad you enjoyed. Matt was busy that day

[@jimmime]

@@ExploringWithin Yeah, I saw that!

[@SylviaAlana]

Thanks

[@ExploringWithin]

Much appreciated thanks 🙏

[@martystumpy2279]

Being Ex Military this really loved this explore Steve...just saying.. in my younger days I would have ran across those pipes 😂😂😂😂✌️💪🪂👈

[@ExploringWithin]

@@martystumpy2279 😆😆👍

[@martystumpy2279]

😂😂😂🪂👈​@@ExploringWithin

[@SylviaAlana]

Thanks for sending a link ready for this explore it was very interesting

[@greywebs1944]

Very interesting find I hope the crab has subscribed to all your channels 👍

[@ExploringWithin]

Glad you enjoyed

[@greywebs1944]

@@ExploringWithin First time I've seen this fort. The brickwork was stunning a great find.

[@SylviaAlana]

Thank you very entertaining ! great explore

[@ExploringWithin]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@xplor8tor5]

Don't know where you walked from but it's not miles from the car park nearby 😂

[@ExploringWithin]

Went the wrong way

[@TheAmericanCanadian1973]

When will Ray grow a PAIR 😂

[@ExploringWithin]

Never unfortunately 😆

[@BlytheWorld1972]

He lost them going over that fence some years back he has a wee fanny now 🤣

[@Hbinky]

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."

[@greywebs1944]

She's got huge tracks of land, but I don't want to get married 🤣 I want to sing (Stop That) 🤣 Monty Python's Holy Grail 🤣

[@Emma-ey2bt]

why are you stopping filmingat the end of the year?

[@ExploringWithin]

Personal reasons 👍

[@Emma-ey2bt]

Fair enough ​@@ExploringWithin

[@DonnasArizonaAdvenrures]

I'll miss your videos! Hope to see you in VacantHaven videos.

[@SylviaAlana]

Thanks

[@ExploringWithin]

Much appreciated thanks 🙏