Slough Fort is a small seven-gun Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the north of Medway

Medway

Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in South East England. The Unitary Authority was formed in 1998 when the City of Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with Gillingham Borough Council and part of Kent County Council to form Medway Council, a unitary authority independent of Kent County...

, 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...

 near Allhallows-on-Sea. It is intact and being used as riding school stable.

It was built in 1867 as an arc of seven granite faced casemate

Casemate

A casemate, sometimes rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired. originally a vaulted chamber in a fortress.-Origin of the term:...

s. The seven 7in rifled breech loaders were designed to impede shipping on the Thames

River Thames

The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...

. By 1895, modifications had been done to the flanks and it was armed with two 9.2in and two 6in breech loaders on hydro-pneumatic disappearing mounting. The mountings were changed by 1905 and the fort was disarmed in 1912.

External links

• Slough Fort