Garrison Point Fort

Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fortress located at the give up of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Built inside the 1860s in response to concerns approximately a likely French invasion, it became the closing in a chain of artillery batteries that had existed at the web site because the mid-16th century. The fortress's position enabled it to protect the strategic point wherein the River Medway meets the Thames. It is a unprecedented instance of a two-tiered casemated castle – certainly one of most effective two of that era in the united states of america – with a layout this is in any other case much like that of numerous of the other forts alongside the lower Thames.

It remained operational till 1956 and is now used by the Sheerness Docks as a port installation. The fort became built in reaction to a naval arms race among Britain and France. Britain's coastal defences had no longer been appreciably upgraded because the Napoleonic Wars, however a new generation of correct and powerful weapons, hooked up on fast-transferring, manoueuvrable iron-clad warships, had obsoleted the present 18^th and early 19^th century forts along the British coastline. The Thames became seen as specially prone; as well as being one of the A's maximum vital exchange routes, it possessed several naval installations of awesome importance, which includes the victualling yards at Deptford, the armaments works of Woolwich Arsenal, the shipbuilding yards at North Woolwich, and the magazines at Purfleet.