Chatham, View From Great Lines c.1955
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C69030
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Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century. They became known as the Great Lines, including Fort Amherst, behind Chatham Town Hall, Fort Pitt and, in the 19th century, Fort Clarence. Designed to protect the docks from landward attack, they were never needed militarily, except for the kind of exercises Mr Pickwick (and his creator, Charles Dickens) witnessed, but they provide 90 acres of public open space between Chatham and Gillingham.
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