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    Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short...
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    moored on the river, but Upnor Castle is a preserved monument, part of the river defences from the sixteenth century. Upnor meant "at the bank" being...
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  • Governor of Upnor Castle was a military officer who commanded the fortifications at Upnor Castle, part of the defenses of the Medway estuary. Upnor became...
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    Chatham area is in Upnor; dating from 1718, it housed the detachment of 64 men responsible for guarding the gunpowder store in Upnor Castle. Chatham Infantry...
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    Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the "Gillingham Line" were supposed to protect...
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    Dover Castle is a medieval castle in Dover, Kent, England and is Grade I listed. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described as the "Key...
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    the Great Lines Heritage Park (between Gillingham and Chatham) and Upnor Castle. This all became possible after the remains of the Namur warship was...
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    Chiddingstone Castle is situated in the village of Chiddingstone, near Edenbridge, Kent, England, 35 miles (56 kilometres) south-southeast of London and...
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    elsewhere. The river was further protected by such fortifications as Upnor Castle which, in 1667 in varying accounts says it was partly successful in thwarting...
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    Rochester Castle was reused to build nearby Upnor Castle, an artillery fort. In 1610 James I granted Sir Anthony Weldon control of the castle. Anne of...
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    "Tonbridge Castle" Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Upnor Castle" Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Walmer Castle" Archived...
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    Chattenden and Upnor Railway (also known as the Lodge Hill and Upnor Railway) was a narrow gauge railway serving the military barracks and depot at Upnor, Kent...
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    house to the coast. In 1668, following the Dutch Raid on the Medway, Upnor Castle was reassigned from serving as an artillery fort to be 'a Place of Store...
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    structures such as Portsmouth's Square Tower, Plymouth's Royal Citadel and Upnor Castle on the River Medway). After 1671 the gun wharf at Woolwich Dockyard was...
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    Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the "Gillingham Line" were supposed to protect...
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    mediaeval times, and HM Dockyard, at Chatham and its surrounding castles and forts—Upnor Castle, Great Lines, and Fort Amherst—more recently. Kent has three...
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    Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace, Chester and Tynemouth and the latter to Hampton Court Palace, Greenwich, Tilbury, Tilbury Fort, Upnor Castle, Sheerness...
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    fell over from the effects of too much wine. The royal party went to Upnor Castle and had dinner aboard the Elizabeth Jonas. At Gravesend, when the royal...
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    dockyard, defensive fortifications were built to protect it from attack. Upnor Castle had been built in 1567, but had proved ineffectual; the Dutch raid on...
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    were set up in the Dockyard towns of Portsmouth and Devonport and in Upnor Castle near Chatham. The Devonport Laboratory (on Mount Wise) had been converted...
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    brother Christian IV of Denmark had dinner aboard the Elizabeth Jonas at Upnor Castle near Rochester, and then were rowed to Chatham. The Elizabeth Jonas was...
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    Palace from the River Thames Horseguards Parade from St James' Park Upnor Castle, Rochester, Kent Vesuvius Erupting Night in paintings (Western art) His...
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    English Navy as deputy victualler and supervised the construction of Upnor Castle. After Queen Elizabeth I pronounced his house was satis (Latin for 'enough')...
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    Kelly's Directory of Rochester 1951. "Fortified Places > Fortresses > Upnor Castle". www.fortified-places.com. Archived from the original on 10 February...
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  • locos visit fairly regularly on special services. Harold. The Colonel Upnor Castle - Construction loco, used on phase 2, 3 and 4. Mountaineer - used in...
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    River Medway, secured on the island and linked with a Wheelhouse at Upnor Castle. It would have been raised in times of danger. In the 1600s, a fort was...
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    stayed in the house during his courtship of Anne Boleyn at nearby Hever Castle. Elements of the Tudor house are still visible; the Historic England listing...
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    Heritage properties containing links for any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage. List of...
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    stored in Upnor Castle on the north/west bank of the River Medway. During the Napoleonic Wars a gunpowder magazine was built alongside the castle at Lower...
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    a diorama of Claudius's imagined arrival on an elephant at Richborough Castle in 43 AD, and full-size reconstructed figures of a Celt and a Roman, all...
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