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Chatham (/ ˈ tʃ æ t ə m / CHAT-əm) is a town within the Medway unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Kent, England.The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham.
Opened in 1967, the museum complex includes the main building with exhibits about the community and its history, an 1861 schoolhouse, an 1854 log cabin, and a barn. Local historic church cemeteries are adjacent to the museum. The museum is located in North Buxton, Ontario, near South Buxton in Chatham-Kent. It was designated as a National ...
Decorative Ironwork over the Doorway. Following the incorporation of Chatham as a municipal borough on 10 December 1890, [2] civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected was a plot of vacant land, which was owned by the War Office, located just to the south east of what was then a military storehouse.
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is a maritime museum on part of the site of the former royal/naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, South East England. Chatham Dockyard covered 400 acres (1.6 km 2 ) and was one of the Royal Navy 's main facilities for several hundred years until it was closed in 1984.
The long military history of the towns has dominated the history of the site and the park. The Great Lines Heritage Park, consists of Fort Amherst, Chatham Lines, the Field of Fire (later known as the Great Lines), Inner Lines, Medway Park (sports centre) together with the Lower Lines. The Lines, were constructed in Napoleonic times. They were ...
F. F. Smith's 1929 work A History of Rochester quotes a 1735 glossary by the Rev. Samuel Pegge on the subject: A Man of Kent and a Kentish Man is an expression often used but the explanation has been given in various ways. Some say that a Man of Kent is a term of high honour while a Kentish Man denotes but an ordinary person.
This category contains articles relating to the town of Chatham, in Kent, England. For articles on the municipality in Ontario, Canada, see Category:Chatham-Kent . The main article for this category is Chatham, Kent .
Map of Chatham (1890), showing Fort Pitt (bottom left). Fort Pitt was laid out as an irregular polygon with a bastion at each corner. Formed of a combination of red-brick walls and earthworks , the fort was surrounded by a 15 feet (4.6 m) deep defensive trench, beyond which was a substantial glacis . [ 10 ]