Global Information Lookup Global Information

Grain Fort information


Grain Fort
Grain, Kent, England
Grain Fort is located in Kent
Grain Fort
Grain Fort
Coordinates51°27′26″N 0°43′11″E / 51.4572°N 0.7197°E / 51.4572; 0.7197
TypeFortification
Site information
OwnerSt James, Isle of Grain Parish Council
ConditionDemolished above ground
Site history
Built1861–68
Built byUnited Kingdom
In use1868–1956
MaterialsConcrete, granite, brick
Demolished1960s

Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the Rivers Medway and Thames during a period of tension with France. The fort's location enabled its guns to support the nearby Grain Tower and Garrison Point Fort at Sheerness on the other side of the Medway. It was repeatedly altered and its guns upgraded at various points in its history, before being decommissioned in 1956 when the UK abolished its coastal defence programme. It was subsequently demolished. The remnants of the fort are still visible and have been incorporated into a coastal park.

and 24 Related for: Grain Fort information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8217 seconds.)

Grain Fort

Last Update:

Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the...

Word Count : 1173

Isle of Grain

Last Update:

1956. The Isle of Grain was also the site of Grain Fort, built in the 1860s and used for coastal defence until the 1950s. The fort was almost completely...

Word Count : 1796

Grain Tower

Last Update:

cost-cutting exercise to reduce the overall cost of the fort-building programme. Instead, a new Grain Fort was built on land, while the existing battery at Garrison...

Word Count : 1627

Garrison Point Fort

Last Update:

an armoured artillery fort on the same site. Its arc of fire would overlap that of Grain Fort and Grain Tower (and later Grain Wing Battery and Dummy...

Word Count : 1350

Grain Wing Battery

Last Update:

artillery batteries at Grain Fort and Dummy Battery, overlapping its arc of fire with Grain Tower just offshore and with Garrison Point Fort on the Isle of Sheppey...

Word Count : 651

Grain elevator

Last Update:

A grain elevator is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a...

Word Count : 5408

Shornemead Fort

Last Update:

including Grain Fort". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. XLI (168): 182. Lowry, p. 88 "Shornmead Fort" (PDF). Victorian Forts. Retrieved...

Word Count : 1940

Maunsell Forts

Last Update:

operations ashore to Whitstable. Forts had been built in river mouths and similar locations to defend against ships, such as the Grain Tower Battery at the mouth...

Word Count : 3519

Junliangcheng Subdistrict

Last Update:

area around was referred to as Juliangcheng (Chinese: 聚粮城; lit. 'Gather Grain Fort'), which later evolved to the name of Junliangcheng today. At the end...

Word Count : 253

Slough Fort

Last Update:

upriver forts (Cliffe, Coalhouse and Shornemead) and those at the mouth of the Medway (Grain and Garrison Point). As an 1869 report noted, the fort was constructed...

Word Count : 1674

List of forts

Last Update:

Bridgewood Fort Clarence Fort Darnet Fort Luton Fort Hoo Fort Pitt Garrison Point Fort Grain Fort & Grain Tower Battery Portsdown Hill Crookhorn Redoubt Fort Fareham...

Word Count : 5630

Cliffe Fort

Last Update:

Fort" (PDF). Victorian Forts. Retrieved 31 May 2015. Wilson, J.D. (September 1963). "Later Nineteenth Century Defences of the Thames, including Grain...

Word Count : 1823

Dummy Battery

Last Update:

artillery batteries at Grain Fort and Grain Wing Battery, a short distance to the north. The battery's arc of fire overlapped with Grain Tower just offshore...

Word Count : 824

Raigad Fort

Last Update:

sort of grains growes thereon. Our house was about a mile from the Rajahs Pallaoe, into which wee retired with noe little content." The fort has a historic...

Word Count : 1043

Viterra

Last Update:

a Canadian grain handling business, that began as the nation's largest grain handler, with its historic formative roots in prairie grain-handling cooperatives...

Word Count : 989

Silo Point

Last Update:

Silo Point viewed from East Fort Avenue at Fort McHenry, December 2011 List of tallest buildings in Baltimore List of grain elevators National Register...

Word Count : 241

Chatham Dockyard

Last Update:

Fort Amherst; new forts, named Pitt and Clarence. The Lines were also extended to the east of Saint Mary's Creek (on St Mary's Island). 1860s Grain Fort...

Word Count : 11787

Coalhouse Fort

Last Update:

(December 1963). "Later Nineteenth Century Defences of the Thames, including Grain Fort". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. XLI (168): 182...

Word Count : 5389

Mary Kilbourne Matossian

Last Update:

(1982-10-01). "Witchin' linked to rye whit; Bedevilment due to poisoned grain". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-12-09 – via Newspapers.com...

Word Count : 1188

Chitradurga Fort

Last Update:

Sultan. The fort is built in a series of seven concentric fortification walls with various passages, a citadel, masjid, warehouses for grains and oil, water...

Word Count : 2583

Fort Patiko

Last Update:

Protectorate. A plaque on the remaining wall of a grain storage building in the center of the fort reads “Fatiko 1872 -88, founded by Sir Samuel Baker...

Word Count : 230

Derawar Fort

Last Update:

Derawar Fort, an iconic edifice located in Cholistan desert near Bahawalpur. The major work has been completed including conservation of a food grain warehouse...

Word Count : 1079

Thames and Medway Coast Artillery

Last Update:

at Shornemead Fort; transferred to 518th (T&M) Coast Rgt by 1 April 1940 284 Bty – formed from part of A Bty 1 April 1941, at Grain Fort 285 Bty – formed...

Word Count : 2352

Panhala Fort

Last Update:

Panhala fort (also known as Panhalgad and Panhalla (literally "the home of serpents")), is located in Panhala, 20 kilometres northwest of Kolhapur in Maharashtra...

Word Count : 2970

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net