Pendennis developed as a naval base from the 1540s. The promontory fortifications feature defences from the 16th to the 20th centuries, including a Henrician and Elizabethan castle, Civil War defences, It was demilitarised in the 1950s.
List Entry Number: 1012134
Copyright Historic England Archive. Harold Wingham Collection HAW_9401_50
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