Fort Burgoyne Eastern Outworks

Fort Burgoyne was designed and built as one of the country's Palmerston forts, it represented the cutting edge of fortress design in the theory, and methods of construction. It is one of only two such fortifications to have survived complete.
Fort Burgoyne is still in use by the Army and as such is inaccessible. However the Eastern Outworks is outside the Connaught Barracks area and on the southern side of the Dover to St. Margaret's Road. The outworks is in poor condition with ditches choked with vegetation and very overgrown. There is also a similar outworks to the west.
Photos taken in Feb.2001.

 

Map of Fort Burgoyne. Full size map here.

 

Wooded hill is actually overgrown Eastern Outworks.

 

The Eastern Outworks, covered in vegetation. View of SW end.

 

On top of Outworks. Sunken construction at southern end.

There are two doorways, one on each side of the archway...

 

...one leads to a small room, and this one to a flight of stairs.

The bottom of the stairs are choked with soil and rubbish, but may have led to the original entrance.

 

Looking back into archway from central area of Outworks.

 

Heavily overgrown top of Outworks, entrance to archway at northern end.

 

Inside northern chambers, arch leads to corridor and...

 

...two rooms like this one.

 

Entrance to tunnel under road, from moat linking Ft. Burgoyne to Eastern Outworks.

 

View inside tunnel.

 

Looking along bottom of moat from Outworks towards Ft. Burgoyne.

 

In bottom of moat, masonry of Outworks on left.

 

View along NE ditch, Outworks on right of picture.

 

View along SE ditch, Outworks on left of picture.