Shornemead Fort overlooking the river Thames.

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Shornemead Fort is a gun battery dating from the 1790s, built to support New Tavern Fort at Gravesend, Kent. It was redeveloped in the 1850s to a pentagonal plan, one of the first polygonal works in Britain.

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Size: 3753px × 5496px
Location: Shornemead, Gravesend, Kent, England, UK.
Photo credit: © Tony Watson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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