Dummy Battery

Dummy Battery, originally known as Grain Battery, is a disused fortified gun battery located about 1 kilometre south of the village of Grain, Kent at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Medway.

Photo: Phillip Perry, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Grain Fort and Garrison Point Fort.

Grain Fort

Fort

Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the Rivers Medway and Thames during a period of tension with France. Grain Fort is situated 3,300 feet north of Dummy Battery.

Garrison Point Fort

Castle

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Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fort situated at the end of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Built in the 1860s in response to concerns about a possible French invasion, it was the last in a series of artillery batteries that had existed on the site since the mid-16th century. Garrison Point Fort is situated 1 mile east of Dummy Battery.

Church of St James

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St James is situated 3,900 feet north of Dummy Battery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blue Town and Sheerness.

Blue Town

Suburb

Blue Town is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It sits on the A249 Brielle Way which runs from Queenborough to Sheerness.

Sheerness

Town

Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 16,738. Sheerness is situated 2 miles east of Dummy Battery.

Rushenden

Village

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rushenden is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of Queenborough. Rushenden is situated 3 miles south of Dummy Battery.

Dummy Battery

Type: Fort
Description: disused gun battery in Kent, England
Categories: artillery battery, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Isle of Grain, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.44844° or 51° 26′ 54″ north

Longitude

0.72232° or 0° 43′ 20″ east

Open location code

9F32CPXC+9W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1237238198

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=fort

Wikidata ID

Q20711890

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