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Fort Albert is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs west of Fort Victoria on the Isle Of Wight , England . It was also known as '''Cliff End Fort'''. It was completed by 1856 , but like the American Third System forts it resembles in miniature, it would have suffered badly from rifled gunfire, so the Royal Commission enhanced it with batteries on the cliffs above. The fort is in private ownership and not open to the public, and indeed there is no public access even to the cliff tops which overlook it. It is most easily viewed from the sea, or from Hurst Castle . The fort itself has been converted into private flats, and the battery, which is in declining condition due to neglect and coastal erosion, is part of a chalet estate. |
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