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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fort" (PDF). Victorian Forts. Retrieved 31 May 2015. Wilson, J.D. (September 1963). "Later Nineteenth Century Defences of the Thames, including Grain...
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including Grain Fort". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. XLI (168): 182. Lowry, p. 88 "Shornmead Fort" (PDF). Victorian Forts. Retrieved...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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