Anchuthengu Fort
The historic remains of the Anchunthengu Fort in Thiruvananthapuram built by the English East India Company in the 17th century, and an adjoining cemetery are noteworthy relics of this first major British trading station on the Malabar coast.
It is here that British East India Company first established in Kerala in the year 1864. Anchuthengu literally means five coconuts. The King of Travancore gave to the East India Company an area marked by five coconut trees, on lease. It is here that the British built the fort. The
fort stands today as a mark of the beginning of British establishment in Kerala.