Upnor Castle

Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan big guns fortification situated on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the town of Upnor, inverse and a short separation downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key maritime office. The fortification was planned to secure both the dockyard and boats of the Royal Navy tied down in the Medway. It was built between 1559– 67 on the requests of Elizabeth I, amid a time of pressure with Spain and other European forces.

The palace comprises of a two-storeyed principle building ensured by a blind divider and towers, with a triangular weapon stage anticipating into the stream. It was garrisoned by around 80 men with a pinnacle deadly implement of around 20 gun of different bores. In spite of its vital significance, the château and the safeguards of the Thames and Medway were gravely ignored amid the seventeenth century.

The Dutch Republic mounted a startling maritime attack in June 1667, and the Dutch armada could break the resistances, catching two warships and consuming others at stay in the stream at Chatham, in one of the most exceedingly awful thrashings endured by the Royal Navy.

Upnor Castle absolved itself superior to huge numbers of the other guarded locales along the upper Medway, in spite of its absence of provisioning. Weapon discharge from the stronghold and from abutting emplacements constrained a Dutch withdraw following a few days, before they could copy the dockyard itself.