Fort Paull is a gun battery situated 10 acres from the north bank of Humber. Fort Paull was built in 1542 as a defence policy. In 1964 a group of volunteers took over and restored it as a heritage museum. PAULL BATTERY Aka “fort paull” was built on the orders of Henry VIII, but played its first significant role when, in July 1642, during the Civil War in England, King Charles I visited the newly-built Paull Battery to review his forces, the same year the Battery was partly demolished by gunfire from Parliamentarian ships sailing up the Humber to relieve the siege of Hull, which at the same time damaged Paull Church with shots meant for the Battery. It was not until the Crimean war of 1854 - 56 that it was thought necessary to fully repair and rebuild the Battery and it is this building complex which can be seen today. It was occupied by the Royal Artillery and was armed with 19 guns for the protection of the river approaches.
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