page_title: L'Ancresse
section_title: 18th and 19th centuries
hierarchical_section_title: L'Ancresse / History / 18th and 19th centuries
caption_attribution_description: Nrf: En Dgèrnésy, 2 d'Juilet 2010 English: Guernsey, 2 July 2010: L'Ancresse, martello towers at the Royal Guernsey Golf Club in Vale
context_page_description: L'Ancresse is an area in the Vale, Guernsey, comprising a common and several beaches covering 737 Vergées.
context_section_description: The threat of invasion from France resulted in the construction of seven Guernsey loophole towers at L’Ancresse, numbered 4 to 10, the towers originally being manned by the Royal Guernsey Militia. Other forts and batteries were also erected:
  La Lochande Battery
  Pembroke headland fort and the Platon battery
  Pembroke star fort
  Half Moon battery
  Centre battery
  Nid de L’Herbe battery
  Fort le Marchant
  Shooting ranges were established on the common in a number of locations, including an artillery range firing from close to the Vale Mill onto the common and into L’Ancresse bay.
caption: Loophole towers, L'Ancresse
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