A report on Upnor
Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are two small villages in Medway, Kent, England.
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Upnor Castle
4 linksElizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent.
Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent.
It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key naval facility.
Medway
4 linksUnitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England.
Unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England.
Frindsbury Extra including Upnor borders Strood.
Chattenden and Lodge Hill Military Camps
3 linksChattenden and Lodge Hill Military Camps were British Army training camps in Chattenden and Hoo St Werburgh in Kent.
Chattenden and Lodge Hill Military Camps were British Army training camps in Chattenden and Hoo St Werburgh in Kent.
During the Napoleonic Wars a gunpowder magazine was built alongside the castle at Lower Upnor designed to store a further 10,000 barrels of gunpowder, followed in 1857 by another, larger magazine which could hold up to 23,000 barrels.
Frindsbury
2 linksPart of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England.
Part of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England.
Within the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra are the villages of Frindsbury, Wainscott, and Upnor.
Gunpowder magazine
3 linksMagazine designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety.
Magazine designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety.
Upnor, Chattenden and Lodge Hill depots remained in military ownership until the mid-2010s, when the MOD marketed the land for housing and commercial use.
Royal Naval Armaments Depot
3 linksArmament depot (or a group of depots) dedicated to supplying the Royal Navy (as well as, at various times, the Royal Air Force, the British Army and foreign and Commonwealth forces).
Armament depot (or a group of depots) dedicated to supplying the Royal Navy (as well as, at various times, the Royal Air Force, the British Army and foreign and Commonwealth forces).
In times of conflict the demand for provision (and therefore storage) of gunpowder grew, so additional magazines were built during the French Revolutionary Wars at Tipner (from 1788) and Weedon (from 1802), and during the Napoleonic Wars at Upnor (from 1806) and Marchwood (from 1811).
Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa
2 linksOne of the United Kingdom's oldest children's charities.
One of the United Kingdom's oldest children's charities.
The move to Upnor occurred in 1933, when the Arethusa was broken up and replaced with a steel-hulled nitrates clipper, the Peking.
River Medway
2 linksRiver in South East England.
River in South East England.
The illustrations include the castles at Queenborough, Upnor, Leybourne, Tonbridge and Hever; Penshurst Place; and the bridges at Teston, Maidstone, Aylesford, East Farleigh, Barming, Branbridges and Tonbridge.
Francis Drake
1 linksSir Francis Drake (c.
Sir Francis Drake (c.
He was ordained deacon and was made vicar of Upnor Church on the Medway.
Frindsbury Extra
2 linksCivil parish divided into commercial, suburban residential and rural parts on the Hoo Peninsula in Medway, a ceremonial part of Kent.
Civil parish divided into commercial, suburban residential and rural parts on the Hoo Peninsula in Medway, a ceremonial part of Kent.
Upnor on the Medway