Cinque Ports Castle, and whilst this office exists today, it is now a purely honorary title, with an official residence at Walmer Castle. The town of Hastings was the head port of the Cinque Ports in mediaeval times. The towns also had their own system of courts. All Freemen of the ports, termed "portsmen", were deemed in the age of Feudalism to be barons, and thus members of the baronage entitled to attend the king's parliament - a privilege granted in 1322 in recognition of their earlier support of the Despensers, father and son. Termed "Barons of the Cinque Ports", they reflected
2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers The 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1890 to 1955. Raised as coastal defence artillery, it later served as field artillery in Mesopotamia during World War I and in the Battle of France and Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II. Its successor units later operated as medium artillery in , and as jungle artillery in Burma. Postwar, it became an anti-aircraft unit. The enthusiasm for the Volunteer Movement following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many units composed of