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Forder Battery is one of the works of the land line built in the 1860s north-east of Plymouth, following the 1859 Royal Commission, to protect Devonport Dockyard from an attack from inland. It occupied the edge of the Forder valley, in the immediate vicinity of Eggbuckland Keep, Bowden Battery and Austin Fort.
These four works formed a coherent arrowhead-shaped group, linked by a military road on an embankment. The battery had no barracks of its own: its garrison was housed in Eggbuckland Keep, to which it was connected by a tunnel, while Bowden Battery covered its northern front.
Having become obsolete, it was disarmed in the early 20th century and then disposed of by the War Office; a large part of the site has been built over. Only about half of it survives, overgrown with vegetation, where service magazines and gun emplacements can still be made out. The site, covered by a Plymouth City Council tree preservation order, is not open to the public.