Brean Down Fort overlooking the Bristol Channel

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Brean Down Fort was built on the headland between 1864 and 1871. Guglielmo Marconi used his equipment at Brean Down to set a new distance record of 14 kilometres ( mi) for wireless transmission over open 1912 Brean Down was leased by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as a bird sanctuary. The fort was rearmed with two ex-naval guns at the start of WW2. The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development used the area for secret weapons development including the "bouncing bomb".

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Location: Brean Down, Mendip Hills, England, UK
Photo credit: © wyrdlight / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: blown, bomb, bouncing, brean, bristol, channel, fort, gugliemo, headland, hills, marconi, mendip, promontory, tests, transmission, trees, victorian, wind