The fort and cemetery lie one and a half kilometers apart and sixteen kilometers to the west of Monze: the road to the site leaves Monze at the southern end of the town and is signposted. This road is passable in the dry season only.

Fort Monze was one of the earliest colonial police posts established in this country. Major Harding and a force of British South Africa Police established the fort in about 1898 near the then village of Chief Monze. It appears that the police went to this area at the invitation of Chief Monze to control the activities of Europeans who came to buy cattle after the Matebele Rebellion. From this fort Major Harding went on patrol among the Ba Ila to enforce payment of tax. The fort was finally demolished by F W Moseley, Acting Compiler of Census, in 1903. The site then became a civil station until this was finally removed in 1904. all that remains is a small rectangular earthwork inside which a commemorative monument has been erected.

The cemetery contains graves of the BSA police party which established the fort, among them that of William Hading, the Commanding Officer. The memorial was erected in 1903-4.