Fort Horsted

A residential suburb perched on the hill north of the town centre, named after the 19th-century fort that once defended the dockyard. The fort itself is largely invisible in the modern landscape, but the military naming tradition is baked into the local identity. Housing is a mix of interwar semis and some post-war houses on tree-lined roads, with a small local parade of shops. Fort Horsted does not have the village feel its name might suggest, but it is a stable residential suburb with a community identity rooted in those historic boundaries.

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