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    Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour. Construction started...
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    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"...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Cliffe Fort Maunsell Sea Forts New Tavern Fort Shornmead Fort Slough Fort Tilbury Fort Fort Horsted Fort Amherst Fort Borstal Fort Bridgewood Fort Clarence...
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  • The Palmerston Forts around Chatham, Kent include: Fort Amherst, technically a Napoleonic era fort but later extended. Fort Borstal, in the village that...
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    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...
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    ordered, inter alia, a third outer ring of forts: these included Fort Luton, Fort Bridgewoods, and Fort Borstal. These fortifications all required military...
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    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...
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    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...
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