A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TILBURY FORT, a fort, with a r. station, in West Tilbury and Chadwell parishes, Essex; on the Thames and on the London and Southend railway, opposite Gravesend, and 2¾ miles SE of Grays-Thurrock. It occupies the site of an ancient chapel; seems to have originated about 1402; took the form of a blockhouse in 1539; was soon strengthened and enlarged, first by Henry VIII., next by Elizabeth; was the place where Elizabeth harangued her army in 1588; was enlarged again, and made a regular fort, in 1667; underwent extensions, with erection of outworks, in years following 1861; has formidable batteries on its ramparts, and the largest bastions in England; and forms one of the main defences for the entrance of the Thames. A telegraph station, a steamboat station, and a steam ferry are adjacent.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a fort, with a r station" (ADL Feature Type: "fortifications") |
| Administrative units: | Essex AncC |
| Place: | Tilbury |
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