Fort Luton, Gillingham

Name: Fort Luton
Address: Magpie Hall Road, Gillingham, United Kingdom

#37 among attractions in Gillingham

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Fort Luton was built between 1876 and 1892 south of Chatham, Medway, South East England. It is one of the five late Victorian land front forts built to defend the overland approaches to Chatham. It is the smallest of the Chatham forts and was built near to the village of Luton. ()

Coordinates: 51°21'57"N, 0°31'51"E

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Magpie Hall RoadLuton and WayfieldGillingham United Kingdom

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Fort Luton – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham Golf Range, Old Brook Pumping Station.

1.2 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Pentagon Shopping Centre, Gillingham
32 min walk • The Pentagon Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Chatham in Kent. The centre's name derives from the fact that its main courtyard is five-sided. The shopping centre is located next to the Waterfront bus station which replaces the Pentagon bus station, which 80% of services use.
1.2 miN
Memorial, Cemetery, Sculpture
Chatham Naval Memorial, Gillingham
32 min walk • Chatham Naval Memorial is a large obelisk situated in the town of Chatham, Kent, which is in the Medway Towns. The memorial is a feature of the Great Lines Heritage Park.
~1320 ftE
51°21'57"N • 0°32'12"E
Chatham Golf Range, Gillingham
7 min walk • Golf
1.1 miN
Museum, Science museum
Old Brook Pumping Station, Gillingham
30 min walk • Old Brook Pumping Station, was a water pumping station operating in Chatham, Kent from 1929 until 1980. It now survives as a working museum.
1.3 miSE
Park
Capstone Farm Country Park, Gillingham
34 min walk • Capstone Farm Country Park is in Chatham, Kent, Medway, in Kent, England. A former farm converted into a landscaped park and open-space area. This park is set on 114 hectares of converted farm land, on the North Downs, near Walderslade. It is within the Kent Downs, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
1 miNW
Romanesque architecture, Church, Romanesque revival architecture
St Michael's, Gillingham
27 min walk • St Michael the Archangel Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Chatham, Kent, England. It was built from 1862 to 1863 in the Romanesque Revival style, designed by Henry Clutton.
0.9 miSW
Forts and castles
Fort Horsted, Gillingham
24 min walk • Fort Horsted is a scheduled monument that lies in the Horsted Valley to the South of Chatham, Kent, England. It is a late 19th-century Land Fort, and one of six constructed around Chatham and Gillingham, Kent to protect HM Dockyard Chatham from attack.
1.4 miNW
51°22'60"N • 0°30'54"E
Chatham Memorial Synagogue, Gillingham
36 min walk • Sacred and religious sites
1.3 miNW
Forts and castles, Georgian architecture
Fort Pitt, Gillingham
33 min walk • Fort Pitt is a Napoleonic era fort on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent. A fort on the site was proposed as early as 1779 by Hugh Debbieg, then Chief Engineer at Chatham. In 1783 the land was purchased by the Board of Ordnance and 4.5 million bricks were deposited there in preparation for construction..