The seven towers in the Red Sands group are part of the Maunsell Forts in the Thames Estuary. The Maunsell Forts are armed towers built in the Thames Estuary during the second World War to defend the United Kingdom. They were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The Maunsell naval forts were built in the Thames estuary and operated by the Royal Navy, to deter and report German air raids following the Thames as a landmark, and prevent attempts to lay mines by aircraft in this important shipping channel..The forts were decommissioned in the 1950's.

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