Weybourne Fort

In the civil parish of Cley Next The Sea.
In the historic county of Norfolk (Modern Authority of Norfolk, 1974 county of Norfolk).

During the invasion scare of 1587, the 2 miles of beach west of Weybourne to Cley was identified as the weakest undefended beach in Norfolk, and an elaborate plan of defences was drawn up by Edmund Yorke to defend the coast. This included a pentagonal bastion trace fort on the high ground at the eastern end of Salthouse marshes. It is how much of the plan was created, the time being too short for proper defences to be created.

This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort
Linear Defence or Dyke.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TG098439

Modern Map from

Good for landscape form and features

Modern Map from

Good for general location

Air Photo from

1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 1394967

Books

Kent, Peter, 1994, 'Armada and 17th-Century Defences' in Wade-Martins, P, (ed), An Historical Atlas of Norfolk (2edn Norwich; Norfolk Museums) p136-7
Kent, Peter, 1988, Fortifications of East Anglia (Lavenham: Ternence Dalton) p178-80

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This record last updated on Friday, April 6, 2007

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