{"id":262,"date":"2013-10-29T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:35:31","slug":"chudleigh-fort-bideford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/explore-and-learn\/explore-devons-heritage\/chudleigh-fort-bideford\/","title":{"rendered":"Chudleigh Fort, Bideford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1642, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarian Captain (later General) Chudleigh built an eight-gun fort at East-the-Water which, along with another fort on the west side of the river, defended Bideford and the river approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2013\/10\/Chudleigh-Fort.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2013\/10\/Chudleigh-Fort-240x122.jpg\" alt=\"Chudleigh Fort, 1985 (\u00a9 Frances Griffith, Devon County Council)\" class=\"wp-image-264\" style=\"width:auto;height:100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2013\/10\/Chudleigh-Fort-240x122.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2013\/10\/Chudleigh-Fort-800x407.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2013\/10\/Chudleigh-Fort.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fort is a five-sided platform with a stone-rubble retaining wall and parapet with 14 gun-ports.&nbsp; It was largely rebuilt in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, which is probably the date of the granite plaque with lead lettering reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORT ERECTED BY PARLIAMENTARY FORCES COMMANDED BY MAJOR-GEN. CHUDLEIGH.&nbsp; April 1642<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is now a public park maintained by the Torridge District Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV11750&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic Environment Record information about this site on Heritage Gateway<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1642, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarian Captain (later General) Chudleigh built an eight-gun fort at East-the-Water which, along with another fort on the west side of the river, defended Bideford and the river approaches. The fort is a five-sided platform with a stone-rubble retaining wall and parapet with 14 gun-ports.&nbsp; It was largely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"parent":238,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:26:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions\/4646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}