Fort Clonque Hotel
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Fort Clonque Hotel
Fort Clonque is the most remarkable of Alderney’s great harbor defenses, begun in 1847 and designed for ten 64-pounder guns in four open batteries, manned by two officers and 50 men.
However, the rapid increase in range of steam ships made Clonque redundant in purpose almost as soon as it was completed and it was left disarmed but intact. The Germans, briefly, again sought to exploit the Fort’s strategic possibilities in the 1940s.