Palmerston Forts, Chatham

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The Palmerston Forts around Chatham, Kent include:

• Fort Amherst, technically a Napoleonic fort but later extended.
• Fort Borstal, in the village that gave its name to the youth offender's institution The Borstal.
• Fort Bridgewood
• Cliffe Fort
• Fort Darland
• Fort Darnet
• Fort Pitt
• Garrison Point Fort
• Grain Battery
• Grain Fort
• Grain Tower
• Grange Redoubt
• Fort Hoo
• Fort Horsted
• Fort Luton
• New Tavern Fort
• Shornemead Fort
• Slough Fort
• Twydall Redoubts, that includes Grange and Woodlands.
• Woodlands Redoubt

[edit] External link

• Palmerston Forts Society: map of Chatham forts

v • d • e Forts around Medway Medieval Rochester Castle Tudor Upnor Castle Inner Ring (Napoleonic): Fort Clarence · Fort Pitt · Fort Amherst · Fort Gillingham Outer Ring (Palmerston): Fort Borstal · Fort Bridgewood · Fort Darland · Fort Horsted · Fort Luton · Twydall Redoubts · Fort Hoo · Fort Darnet