Fort Luton was built between 1876 and 1892 south of Chatham, Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, England

England

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. It has a polygonal trace. It was never armed, but took part in the war games held by the Army in the 1900s, including a trial siege in 1907. The site was last used in the 1990s as a model museum, but that has since closed.

In 2006 the site was vandalised.

External links

• The Palmerston Forts Society
• Kent History Forum - pictures and newspaper cuttings