| Summary : Fort Number 1 of London's Civil War defences was in Wapping, south of the Church of St Georges-in-the-East. The common Council resolution called for a bulwark and a half, with a battery at the north end of Gravel Lane, which is where vertue showed it. lithgow however refers to it as a seven-angled fort close by the houses and the River Thames Rocque's map shows a mound on the generally accepted line of the ramparts at the junction of the present Watts Street and Reardon Streets, which would accord more with Lithgow's location. Lithgow's description is of a palisaded earth fort having 9 portholes with guns for each. |