Castles and forts in Medway
The Discover Alone map has 9 castles and forts in Medway, England. Below are the 9 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Rochester CastleScheduled monumentRochester Castle has guarded the River Medway since William the Conqueror gave it to Bishop Odo after the Norman…
Fort HorstedFortFort Horsted is the largest pentagonal fort in the Chatham Ring, completed in 1889 and now reduced to a car depot. Its…
Dummy BatteryFortDummy Battery is a lost fort beside the Medway, built in 1867 to point heavy guns at the river entrance. It changed…
Darnet FortFortDarnet Fort rose from the Medway shore in 1870 as a round, two-floor trap with an open courtyard and elevated gun…
Cooling CastleRuinsCooling Castle stands as a ruined quadrangular fortress built in the 1380s by John Cobham to guard the Thames Estuary…
Grain FortFortGrain Fort is shown as a fort on the public map of Medway. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped…- Fort BridgewoodsFortFort Bridgewoods was a hexagonal fortress built in 1884 to protect the Chatham Ring, yet bulldozers erased most of its…
- Cooling Castle and its associated landscaped settingScheduled monumentCooling Castle rose in 1381 after a French raid scarred Kent, filling eight acres with stone walls, corner towers and…
- Artillery castle at UpnorScheduled monumentUpnor Artillery Castle fired heavy guns across the Medway during the Second Dutch War, using stone salvaged from…