Island Way West

Places of Interest Nearby

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. Upnor Castle is situated 2,900 feet west of Island Way West.

Lower Lines Park

Park

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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. Lower Lines Park is situated 1 mile south of Island Way West.

HMS Gannet

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HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then loaned as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. HMS Gannet is situated 1 mile southwest of Island Way West.

Places in the Area

Brompton

Village

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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.

Wainscott

Village

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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.

Gillingham

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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.

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