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Tilbury Fort

In the early nineteenth century Tilbury Fort lay in the parish of West Tilbury, opposite Gravesend, and was described as a regular fortification, and the key to London. It was designed during the time of Charles II as a pentagon, although the water bastions were never built. The esplanade of the fort was very large, and the bastions then the largest of any in England.

 

 

 

 

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