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aerial photograph of Archcliffe Fort, Dover Kent England UK.Archcliffe Fort is a Palmerston fort built in the early 1860s as defense against the threat of invasion by France and was intended to defend Dover Harbour. The seaward side has been lost with much of it removed for the construction of the railway in 1928. What remains still include some remnants of the previous fort constructed by Henry VIIII in 1539-40. What remains of the fort was listed as a Scheduled Monument in 1964.