List of Palmerston Forts around Chatham, Kent

The Palmerston Forts around Chatham , Kent include:

• Fort Amherst, technically a Napoleonic era 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, a Napoleonic era fort, but used as the Army Medical School from 1860 to 1863. ^[1]
• 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

References

1. A E W Miles, The Accidental Birth of Military Medicine, page 118. Civic Books, London, 2009 ISBN   9781-904104-95-7

External links

• Victorian Forts map of Chatham forts