Today
Today, much of the site is open as a country park. The barracks have been demolished; and the Citadel has been a Young Offenders' Institution - and is now Dover Immigration Removal Centre and so is off limits.
English Heritage own the Redoubt, along with the Grand Shaft spiral staircase owned by the Council, and is annually opened by the Western Heights Preservation Society.
The "Grand Shaft Bowl" located south of Drop Redoubt, is the proposed location for the new National War Memorial, which will commemorate, by name, all of the British Commonwealth casualties of World War I and World War II.
The Grand Shaft Barracks was the location for the filming of the post-nuclear attack scenes in the Peter Watkins 1965 film; The War Game.
Coordinates: 51°07′08″N 1°18′04″E / 51.119014°N 1.301022°E / 51.119014; 1.301022
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