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    Fort Perch Rock is a former defence installation situated at the mouth of Liverpool Bay in New Brighton. Built in the 1820s to defend the Port of Liverpool...
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  • Perch Rock may refer to: A rock outcrop in Liverpool Bay off the coast of New Brighton, Merseyside Fort Perch Rock, a 19th century fort on Perch Rock...
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    lighthouse to replace the old Perch Rock Light, however a separate lighthouse was built. The fort was built on an area known as Black Rock, and was cut off at high...
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    outcrop off New Brighton known locally as Perch Rock. Together with its neighbour, the Napoleonic era Fort Perch Rock, it is one of the Wirral's best known...
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  • Seaforth Battery (category Forts in Merseyside)
    to engage ships using the Rock Channel head on as well as the other shipping channels. The battery supported Fort Perch Rock, which was located opposite...
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  • Crosby Battery (redirect from Fort Crosby)
    breech-loading Mark VII guns, which were the same as those installed at nearby Fort Perch Rock, on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Mersey. Behind the...
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    sources report that the fort fired the first Allied shots of both world wars some sources state that they were fired by Fort Perch Rock on the Mersey River...
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    There are remains of a small Iron Age fort at Burton, for which the town was named (burh tūn being Old English for "fort town"). Around AD 70, the Romans founded...
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  • battery at Fort Perch Rock, completed in 1829 to defend the port of Liverpool, its docks and shipping during times of war, and the Perch Rock Lighthouse...
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    Bidston Hill and Bidston Windmill Birkenhead Park Birkenhead Priory Fort Perch Rock Hamilton Square Hilbre Island Lady Lever Art Gallery Leasowe Castle...
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