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About Chatham
From Wikipedia
"Chatham is an English town that developed around an important naval dockyard on the east bank of the River Medway in the county of Kent. Together with Rochester and Gillingham it is today part of the Medway Towns conurbation.
Chatham Dockyard was established by Henry VIII and the small village of Chatham grew. At one point thousands of men were employed at the dockyard, and many hundreds of ships and submarines were launched there including HMS Victory which was built there in the 1760s. The dockyard was shut as an operational site 1984 by the Thatcher government; a large part of it became a historic site (operated by Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust) and the rest has been developed for housing, industrial sites and as a commercial marina.
Chatham is also the site of many of the fortifications built to protect
the dockyard from invasion. The Great Lines (abbreviated from "great lines
of defence") were built across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend
in the river. By 1758 this stretched for more than a mile from Fort Amherst
(today a heritage site) to Gillingham Reach. Later, forts were built above
the town, among them Fort Luton (also a heritage site), Fort Pitt (later
used as a hospital by Florence Nightingale; the site is now a girls' grammar
school), Fort Horsted and Fort Clarence. Many still exist; some have been
converted into housing; others have been demolished.
The town was also the location for several military barracks, most of which
have now shut. Although the postal address of Brompton Barracks (the
headquarters of the Royal Engineers) indicates Chatham as its location,
Brompton was an entirely separate village within Gillingham parish.
Chatham became a market town in its own right in the 19th century, and a municipal borough in 1890. By 1831 its population had reached more than 16,000. By 1961 it had reached 48,800."
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