Upnor
Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are two small villages in Medway, Kent, England.
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Medway
Unitary 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.
Upnor Castle
Elizabethan 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.
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c.
Sir Francis Drake (c.
He was ordained deacon and was made vicar of Upnor Church on the Medway.
Frindsbury
Part 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.
River Medway
River 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.
Straight-tusked elephant
Extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–30,000 years before present).
Extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–30,000 years before present).
Two sites were found in the Lower Thames basin, one at Upnor, Kent and one at Aveley, Essex.
Gunpowder magazine
Magazine 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
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).
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).
Peking (ship)
Steel-hulled four-masted barque.
Steel-hulled four-masted barque.
In July 1933, she was moved to a new permanent mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, where she served as a children's home and training school.
Chatham Dockyard
Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
The oldest surviving barracks in the Chatham area is in Upnor; dating from 1718, it housed the detachment of 64 men responsible for guarding the gunpowder store in Upnor Castle.