Aldeburgh: Martello Tower 
Description
The first (or last if you're heading north) of the 103 towers built in the early 19th century to defend the east and south coast of England from attack. Located at regular intervals along the coast from here at Aldeburgh all the way down to Seaford in East Sussex these forts never saw any action, with the threat from France already disappearing with the defeat of Napoleon within a couple of years of their completion. Today this Martello tower has been converted into a holiday home, so it can't be visited - but you can walk around the outside and, from the southern side, take in the views of geography in action as the land beyond here has all been created in the last couple of hundred years by longshore drift of eroded land from further up the coast being dumped here by the sea.
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Getting There
The Martello tower is about a 20 minute walk south, along the seafront, from the centre of AldeburghLatitude: 52.137559; Longitude: 1.597881
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