Why Chatham?

The proposed World Heritage Site includes the Historic Dockyard, Fort Amherst, Gun Wharf,  Upnor Castle, the Great Lines, Brompton Village, Pembroke (now the Universities at Medway complex) and the Royal School of Military Engineering (Brompton Barracks). Click here for a map.

The site has been proposed as a future World Heritage Site because:

(1) Chatham is the world’s most complete Historic Dockyard from the age of sail - a time when Dockyards were the industrial centres of Europe.

(2) Chatham was instrumental in securing and maintaining Britain’s worldwide influence, and in shaping the world we know today.

(3) Chatham Dockyard boasted an advanced and exemplary array of facilities to build, repair, and deploy the fleet.

(4) The completeness and survival of the Dockyard and its defences - Fort Amherst, Upnor Castle and the Great Lines – is unrivalled.

(5) A series of historic barracks and military installations help make Chatham an outstanding garrison town.

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