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Chatham Useful Numbers INDEXIndex SPONSORSSponsors LocalHISTORY History A TOto ZZ LocalLOCAL Adverts FIRMS UsefulKEY NUMBERS Numbers FreeADD Listing ENTRY www.atozguide.org/chatham Useful Numbers You? Local History A to Z A to Kindly Supported by CHATHAM Free local guide and A to Z directory Free local guide and A to A to Z Directory A to CHATHAM A TO Z GUIDE INDEX INDEX Index Contents This menu is interactive - click on any link to jump straight to your desired classification. The coloured tabs to the right are also live links to help you navigate quickly through the guide. Accountancy Opticians SPONSORS Acupuncture Parenting Sponsors Airports Parking Welcome to your Ambulance Services Performing Arts local A to Z guide. Banks Photo Processing Bridal Shops Photographers We hope that you find it Builders Physiotherapists both interesting and useful. 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Local AdvertsLocal LOCAL FIRMS LOCAL Local Sponsor (only £25.00) Exclusive opportunity which would give you maximum coverage including: * Guaranteed top listing in the relevant classification both in the guide and on the site * Your logo and live link on every local page of the site Useful Numbers KEY NUMBERS * An advert in the sponsors section of the guide * Exclusivity (only one per classification per town) * Your listing will appear immediately and will prevent your competitors from taking the slot The total cost will be a one-off payment of £25. There is nothing else to pay but your information will remain in place permanently. Listing Free ADD ENTRY Reserve your slot at www.atozguide.org/add-listing Back to Site 3 Back to Index CHATHAM A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL HISTORY INDEX Index LOOKING BACK - A BRIEF LOCAL HISTORY A fascinating insight into how the area has evolved - (thanks to Wikipedia) both naval barracks. SPONSORS In response to the huge manpower Sponsors needs, the village of Chatham and other nearby villages and towns grew commensurately. Trams, and later buses, linked those places to bring in the workforce. The area between the High Street and Luton village illustrates part of that growth, with its many streets of Victorian terraces. The importance of Chatham dockyard HistoryLocal gradually declined as Britain’s naval HISTORY resources were reduced or moved to other locations, and eventually, in 1984, it was closed completely. The dockyard buildings were preserved as the historic site Chatham Historic Dockyard (operated by Chatham Historic Dockyard it became a shipbuilding yard; from Trust), now under consideration as a The name Chatham was first then until the late 19th century, further World Heritage Site the site is being expansion of the yard took place. In used for other purposes. Part of the St recorded as Cetham in 880. its time, many thousands of men were Mary’s Island section is now used as The Domesday Book records employed at the dockyard, and many a marina, and the remainder is being hundreds of vessels were launched A TO Z the place as Ceteham. Most developed for housing, commercial A to Z there, including HMS Victory which was and other uses, branded as “Chatham books explain this name built there in the 1760s. After World War Maritime”. I many submarines were also built in as a British root ceto (like Chatham Dockyard. Welsh coed) plus Old English For more information, visit; http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham,_Kent ham, thus meaning a forest In addition to the dockyard itself, defensive fortifications were built to (Photo: Clem Rutter) settlement. However, the river- protect it from attack. Upnor Castle had been built in 1567, but had proved Local AdvertsLocal valley situation of Chatham is FIRMS LOCAL ineffectual; the Dutch Raid on the more consistent with cet being Medway in 1667 showed that more an Old English survival of the was required. The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat element catu that was common of invasion grew, were begun in 1756 in Roman-era names and as a complex across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend in the meant ‘basin’ or ‘valley’. River Medway, and included Fort Amherst. The threat of a land-based Chatham stands on the A2 road along attack from the south during the 19th the line of the ancient Celtic route, century led to the construction of even Useful Numbers which was paved by the Romans, and more forts. KEY NUMBERS named Watling Street by the Anglo- Saxons. Among finds have been the The second phase of fort-building remains of a Roman cemetery. After the (1806–1819) included Fort Pitt (later Norman invasion the manor of Chatham, used as a hospital and the site of the originally Saxon, was given by William first Army Medical School). The 1859 the Conqueror to Earl Godwinson. Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom ordered, inter alia, It long remained a small village on a third outer ring of forts: these included the banks of the river, but by the 16th Fort Luton, Fort Bridgewood, and Fort century warships were being moored at Borstal. These fortifications all required Jillingham water {Gillingham}, because military personnel to man them and Listing Free of its strategic sheltered location Army barracks to house those men. ADD ENTRY between London and the Continent. It These included Kitchener Barracks (c was established as a Royal Dockyard 1750–1780), the Royal Marine Barracks by Queen Elizabeth I in 1568 and most (c 1780). Brompton Artillery Barracks of the dockyard actually lies within (1806) and Melville Barracks. H.M.S. Gillingham. Initially a refitting base, Collingwood and H.M.S. Pembroke were Back to Site 4 Back to Index CHATHAM A TO Z GUIDE A TO Z DIRECTORY INDEX Index needs of over 60 million customers, across 80 countries and territories. (Website) 08457 404 404 TSB Bank Plc http://www.tsb.co.uk/ Thee TSB website contains a search facility which allows you to find the nearest branch SPONSORS or cash machine. Sponsors (Website) 0131 225 4555 Santander http://www.santander.co.uk/ Branch locator - the search results will display a list and map showing the nearest branches found from your search criteria. (Website) HistoryLocal 08459 724 724 HISTORY (Photo; Clem Rutter) Airports Lloyds Bank Plc http://www.lloydsbank.com/ The Airport Guides Find a branch or cashpoint. 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