Dale Fort

Dale Fort Field Centre

Dale Fort is a battery site to the West of Milford Haven, Wales.

Occupied from Elizabethan times to the present day, the main buildings were built for the military protection of Milford Haven in the 1850s, but the most unusual feature is its use for trials of Edmund Zalinski's Pneumatic Dynamite Gun in the 1890s.

The West Wales Field Society purchased Dale Fort for £6000 in 1946 which it leased to the Council for the Promotion of Field Studies in August. The Wardens of Skokholm operated from Dale Fort initially. In 1959, it was sold to the Field Studies Council (formerly CPFS) at cost price plus an interest-free mortgage of £1,800 transferred to the Council.[1] It has been run by the Field Studies Council as a field centre, and is now used by many thousands of students each year. 70% of the students are A-Level biologists working on the nearby shores to understand ecology.

References

  1. ↑ Brief History and Handbook to Nature Reserves: West Wales Naturalists' Trust. 1975

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Coordinates: 51°42′12″N 5°09′07″W / 51.70320°N 5.15202°W / 51.70320; -5.15202

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