Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour. Construction started...

The youth prison at Borstal gave its name to the Borstal reform school system. Its name came from Anglo-Saxon burg-steall "fort site" or "place of refuge"...

at Borstal, Rochester, to provide low cost labour for the construction of a line of four forts, Fort Borstal, Fort Bridgewood, Fort Horsted and Fort Luton...

barge up the River Medway to a quay at Borstal, then hauled up the steep scarp slope of the North Downs to the fort via a branch of the EDR. This was done...

forts Shoreham Redoubt Coalhouse Fort Cliffe Fort New Tavern Fort Shornmead Fort Slough Fort Tilbury Fort Fort Horsted Fort Amherst Fort Borstal Fort...

The Palmerston Forts around Chatham, Kent include: Fort Amherst, technically a Napoleonic era fort but later extended. Fort Borstal, in the village that...

per cent. It was protected by a series of forts including Fort Amherst and the Lines, Fort Pitt and Fort Borstal. The majority of surviving buildings in...

ordered, inter alia, a third outer ring of forts: these included Fort Luton, Fort Bridgewoods, and Fort Borstal. These fortifications all required military...

of Fort Borstal, Fort Bridgewood, Fort Luton, and the Twydall Redoubts, with two additional forts on islands in the Medway, namely Fort Hoo and Fort Darnet...

Gotha failed to return, probably shot down by anti-aircraft fire from Fort Borstal near Rochester. Six raids followed at the end of September. These included...