Tower 26 guarded the Globsden Gut sluice gates along with Tower 27, although the sluice had become disused by 1870.
The sea had encroached towards the tower, and so groynes and an apron were built to protect it. The structures were themselves being washed at high tides by 1870 and the Report on Coastal Defences (compiled in 1870, but not submitted until 1873) predicted that Tower 26 "will probably soon have to be abandoned."1 The report subsequently stated that the tower was demolished in 1871.
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