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The Bakehouse Tower with watchtower, guarding the Inner Ward, overlooking the North Wales Coast Line
The village of Cloyne has a round tower which is the village's symbol. There is also ruins of a Norman watchtower on a hill overlooking the town.
They built a fortress and watchtower atop the hill, overlooking Saffuriya, and dedicated it to Anne and Joachim, the parents of the Virgin Mary.
Located on a hill near the Capul fort overlooking the town harbor, a stone watchtower was erected to serve as a sentry or warning system and a refuge for indigents during Moro raids.
It It was built to serve as a watchtower a watchtower overlooking Mahim Bay, the Arabian Sea and the southern island of Mahim.
File: Castella de Aguada 11. jpg | Castella de Aguada, a watchtower overlooking Mahim Bay, the Arabian Sea and the southern island of Mahim

watchtower and erected
The Watch Hill Lighthouse in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, has served as a nautical beacon for ships since 1745, when the Rhode Island colonial government erected a watchtower and beacon during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.
A new watchtower was erected in that place.

watchtower and tower
It also served as the watchtower ; the tower guard was housed on the second floor of the lower square block.
The tower, which surveys the surrounding landscape like a watchtower, is open to the public on Sunday afternoons throughout the summer.
Sights in Alfeld include the town hall ( 1586 ) with its octagonal tower, the church Saint Nicolai and the Fillerturm, a medieval watchtower and the Fagus Factory of 1911, a fine example of early modernist architecture by Walter Gropius.
Each tower has an additional watchtower turret, probably intended both for security and to allow the prominent display of the royal flag.
Originally built as a keep or watchtower, it was also used as a residence tower.
Owing to bad weather and a landmark misinterpretation – the crew mistook the top of the old watchtower for the church steeple – the bombers ended up dropping their load on the Wartberg, a nearby hill, giving rise to the legend of the Wartbergturm – the old tower – as Alzey ’ s saviour.
After Jimmy's death, Chloe returns to the tower and tells Clark that she plans to use the building as a base-or " as a watchtower "-for the Justice League.
The latter is a quadrangular watchtower which served to patrol the coast south of Port Schisò ; if any pirate boats were sighted, the observers inside the tower could alert the villagers and neighbouring watchtowers by sending out smoke signals.
It incorporates a former watchtower used to counter Saracen attacks, now turned into a bell tower.
Later, it was used for a watchtower, and then for any tower where a bell was hung.
Its ventilation tower ( often mistaken for a watchtower ) has become a local landmark.
Scotland saw the construction of Peel towers that combined the function of watchtower with that of a keep or tower house that served as the residence for a local notable family.
Some fortifications of the Imperial city remain intact, including Tiananmen, the gate tower and watchtower at Zhengyangmen, the watchtower at Deshengmen, the southeastern corner guard tower, and a section of the Inner city wall near Chongwenmen.
The Righteous Harmony Society burned down the gate tower at Zhengyangmen, and its watchtower was destroyed by Indian troops.
By this time, the only intact sections were the gate tower and watchtower at Zhengyangmen, the watchtower at Deshengmen, the guard tower at the southeast corner, the northern moats of the Inner city, the section of the Inner city wall south of the Beijing Railway Station, and a small section of Inner city wall near Xibianmen.
Each gate tower had a watchtower directly in front of it.

watchtower and on
Alternatively, the name may derive from the verb na · ṣar, נ ָ צ ַ ר, " watch, guard, keep ," and understood either in the sense of " watchtower " or " guard place ", implying the early town was perched on or near the brow of the hill, or, in the passive sense as ' preserved, protected ' in reference to its secluded position.
The oldest known surviving piece of paper with writing on it was found in the ruins of a Han watchtower that had been abandoned in 110 CE, in Inner Mongolia.
It commands the entrances to both harbours and prior to the arrival of the Knights of Malta in 1530, a watchtower existed on this point.
Another IRA unit attacked a British Army watchtower, the Borucki sangar, with an improvised flamethrower towed by a tractor in Crossmaglen, on 12 November 1992.
There may have been a watchtower here on the road to London and hence the people of the look-out post.
The Romans also built a watchtower on the top of Holyhead Mountain inside Mynydd y Twr, a prehistoric hillfort.
During its 28-year active life, the infrastructure on the Eastern side was expanded to include not only the wall, watchtower and zig-zag barriers, but a multi-lane shed where cars and their occupants were checked.
If the dzong is built on the side of a valley wall, a smaller dzong or watchtower is typically built directly uphill from the main dzong with the purpose of keeping the slope clear of attackers who might otherwise shoot downward into the courtyard of the main dzong below ( see image at head of article ).
The remainder of the park is only open from sunrise to sunset, and includes a bathhouse on the Atlantic Ocean, an area for surf-fishing, a disc golf course, and bicycle lanes, walking paths, and a World War II-era watchtower which is open to the public.
* Bridge Tender's House, an installation on the bridge's old watchtower
The name of the museum refers to a watchtower built on a hill commanding a 360-degree view of the harbor and the bay.
Higher yet on the mountainside is a watchtower, called " Ta Dzong ", to guard the dzong from enemies.
Visitors often sought to have a nude photograph taken below a looming East German watchtower ; the West Germans noted " a lot more movement on that watchtower since the nudist beach opened.
In 1940, the retreating Belgian army put the mill on fire to prevent it from being used as a watchtower by the German occupiers, because geographically, the ' Stone Mill ' was the highest architectural point in a circle of about 10 kilometers.
A romantic, if erroneous, theory is that the folly is in fact a medieval watchtower, a tale which has been further embellished by a few fanciful locals who insist that it may have been the holding place for Anne Boleyn on her journey from Hever Castle to London for her trial and execution.
The remains of a medieval watchtower, the Bierstadter Warte, are located on a height between Wiesbaden and the district.
It has many features of historical interest but two of the largest ones on the banks of the river include the Claregalway Friary, founded in mid-13th century, and a Norman watchtower ( small castle ) completed in the 16th century.
* at the constables post on Kodaikarai beach at the end of the road near the southwest corner of the sanctuary is a tall damaged watchtower that requires a police escort to climb.
The town has a fort with 18-meter high walls built between 1765 and 1821, and a 22-meter high watchtower, built in 1824 by Husein-kapetan Gradaščević on foundations made originally by the Romans.

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