Number 2 Basin

Places of Interest

Upnor Castle

Castle

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Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key naval facility.

Lower Lines Park

Park

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lower Lines Park, also known as Admiral's Gardens, is a public park in Gillingham, Kent. The park is part of the former Chatham Lines, a defensive moat built in 1803 to protect Chatham Dockyard.

Medway Police Station

Public building

Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Medway Police Station is the main Kent Police facility for the Medway towns, located on Purser Way in Gillingham, Kent. It serves all Medway divisions and replaced several older local stations in Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester and Rainham.

Places in the Area

Brompton

Village

Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brompton is a suburban village situated between the town centres of Gillingham and Chatham, lying adjacent to Chatham Dockyard in Medway, Kent, England. Its name means "a farmstead where broom grows" — broom is a small yellow flowering shrub.

Gillingham

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Gillingham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

Wainscott

Village

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wainscott is a small village in Rochester, in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra, in the Medway Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council.

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