Visit Fort Marlborough in Bengkulu, the Largest British Fort in the Southeast Asia.

Fort Marlborough (Fort Marlborough) is not only a bastion of the British territory on the west coast of Sumatra but also as a place to maintain the monopoly of pepper Bengkulu and trade. The fort was built by the East India Company (EIC) in 1713 to 1719 during the leadership of Governor Joseph Callet. The fort is considered as the second strongest fort belonging to the British in the east after the castle of St. George in Madras, India. Marlborough own name given by the British government which holds to John Churchill Duke of Marlborough I as a mark of respect.

Initially used as a defense fort but switching function as a commodity trading at the same pepper supervision center of the Malacca Strait. Judging from the architecture of the castle is more like dwelling in the city center than the fort or trading center. According to the British Library records that exist in this fort explain the process of baptism, marriage, and death of the occupants. There are approximately 90 civilian and military personnel who live in this castle.

Today, the fort still stands firmly on a land area of ​​44,100 m² with a length of 240.5 m and 170.5 m wide, facing to the south and back to the Indian Ocean. The architecture is similar to a turtle, there is a bridge connecting the head and body, a bridge over the moat that forms the tail and the bridge that connects the entrance to the outside. First third of this bridge can be raised and lowered. Until now the outer boundary wall is still visible in the form of trenches.

Inside this building there is a detention room, armory, offices, several cannons, bunkers, tunnels along a 6 m wide and 2 m. While on the back there are three tombs is the tomb of Thomas Parr, Charles Murray and the tomb of the unknown.