Laling Fort

Laling Fort stands on Laling hill about 9.65 kilometres south of Dhule. It was one of the important forts of Khandesh under the Faruqi kings and is thought to date from the first of them, Malik Raja (1370–1399), who granted it to his eldest son, which suggests it was his main fort. In 1437 a Bahmani general besieged Nasir Khan here with his son, Miran Adil Khan, until an army from Gujarat came to their aid, and Mughal troops passed this way in the early 17th century. The fort lay on the old Surat–Burhanpur trade road.

Today it is ruined and partly collapsed, but newly built steps lead up from an old Hemadpanthi temple in the village below. On top are a Lalitamata temple and several rock-cut cisterns, and an escape gate on the south leads to a semicircular dam with a chhatri nearby. The summit looks out over Dhule city, and Laling village has two dilapidated Hemadpanthi temples and an old well.