Why Chatham?

The proposed World Heritage Site includes the Historic Dockyard, Fort Amherst, Gun Wharf, Upnor Castle, the Great Lines, Brompton Village, 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 example of an historic dockyard from the age of sail and early age of steam (1700 – 1865).

(2) Chatham was instrumental in securing and maintaining Britain’s worldwide influence, leading the world in industrial design, naval architecture and military technology.

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

(4) A series of historic barracks and military installations demonstrate the inter-relationship between the army and navy that shaped Chatham as a complete industrial military complex and garrison town.

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