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The route
towards left hardly has any remains apart from the ruins of
fortification wall on the edge. After this, one has to go back to the
confluence of the routes and now take the one towards the right.
Moving ahead there is a dried well and its depth is equivalent to that
of a ten storey building. Bit further from here there is a beautiful
small pond which was used to store water from the well. It can be seen
that the pond has 14 corners.
Further,
there are remnants of mansion and ruins of bastions on the last edge of
the fort. Remnants of broken pipes of the old water systems that must
have existed on the fort in the days gone could still be seen.
Getting There
Songir Fort is located 21 km from
Dhule on the Dhule-Agra Highway. From Dhule, ST buses going to Shahada or
Dhondhaicha stop at Songir Junction on the highway. Songir village is about
15 minutes from here. The route to the fort starts opposite the
Grampanchayat office and it takes around 10 minutes to reach the fort top.
Dhule Railway Station is
connected to Chalisgaon Junction Railway Station under Central Railways. The
Chalisgaon Dhule Passenger runs between the two stations four times a day.
The train also carries reserved coaches for Mumbai, which are connected to
another train from Chalisgaon onwards.
Dhule Airport is
situated near Gondur village, about 8 km from the Dhule. Currently there are
no scheduled airlines operating at this Airport. The nearest domestic
airport from Dhule is Aurangabad
Airport, located at Aurangabad, roughly 155 km from Dhule, three and a
half hours drive via MH SH 22. The airport is well connected to many major
cities like Mumbai, Nagpur and New Delhi etc.
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