Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was combined from 1267 with the office of Constable of Dover Castle. However, from 1708 Walmer Castle at Deal was to be preferred as the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The Lord Warden also holds the office of Admiral of the Cinque Ports with a maritime jurisdiction extending to the middle of the English Channel, from Redcliffe near Seaford, in Sussex to the shore underneath the Naze Tower, encompassing Brightlingsea in Essex, the only Cinque Port north of the Thames. In earlier centuries the northern limit was taken as the Shoe Beacon in Essex. The
1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers Ports AVCs (in most cases reverting to the numbering of May–August 1860). In 1880 the Admin Brigade was consolidated as the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers, organised as follows: 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers The unit was later reduced to 13 batteries, and in April 1882 was assigned to the Cinque Ports Division of the Royal Artillery (RA). It was briefly (May 1887 to July 1889) designated the 4th Volunteer (Cinque Ports) Brigade, but reverted to its previous title and joined the Eastern Division, RA. In 1890 the Sussex batteries were separated to form the 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers,