For a time the land was but a line of rock, with martello towers perched upon the points.
"An American Girl Abroad"
Adeline Trafton
This estate extends for a considerable distance to where a martello tower, said to have been built with stones from Beaulieu Abbey, stands on the cliff, from which point the land gradually diminishes in height until, towards the entrance to Poole Harbour, it becomes a jumbled and confused mass of low and broken sand-hills.
"Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch"
Sidney Heath
A faint yellow light in the west showed the links, on which a few figures moving towards the club-house were still visible, the squat martello tower, the lights of Aldsey village, the pale ribbon of sands intersected at intervals by black wooden groynings, the dim and murmuring sea.
"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"
M. R. James