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WHERE TO FIND US: WHERE TO FIND US: Troops setting out from for a mock attack on in 1798 No 2 Office Block Coalhouse Fort The Fort Princess Margaret Road Tilbury About the Trail RM18 7NR Essex RM18 8PB

OPENING TIMES: CHECK WEBSITE OPENING TIMES: CHECK WEBSITE The trail was funded as part of the Walls and Gardens www.english-heritage.org. www.coalhousefort.co.uk An artist’s reconstruction of Tilbury Fort in the mid 18th century project which is part-funded through the European uk/daysout/properties/ ADMISSION PRICES: Union’s Interreg IVA funding programme. This project tilbury-fort brings together 22 partners from Belgium, France, the Adults £4 Netherlands, and the UK. The partners are working ADMISSION PRICES: Children (5-15 YEARS) £0.50 together to improve the preservation of fortified towns Adult £4.70 Concessions (60+) £3 and sites as well as their surrounding landscapes. Child (5-18 YEARS) £2.80 English Heritage members FREE Concession £4.20 Overseas visitor pass available For more information on Walls and Gardens please see Family (2 ADULTS, 3 CHILDREN) www.wallsandgardens.eu £12.20 English Heritage members FREE Overseas visitor pass available App Download

For an interactive experience along Subject to change therefore please check with each venue to confirm opening times and entry fee. the way download the Two Forts Way Reconstruction painting of Coalhouse Fort 1884 app for free by following this link.

Along the way you will learn about Walk the way and view the display the role the river and its defences boards to learn more about the played during the Second World War and earlier conflicts, as well as the history of Tilbury and the defence history of Coalhouse Fort. of the Thames.

Visit the two forts along the way, take part in To find out more and download activity sheets for the Battleship Game, go to Image copyrights: Coalhouse Fort and Tilbury Fort – Frank Gardiner © ECC. Gravesend with troops – English the tours and learn more about what life would School, (18th century) / Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island, USA / Bridgeman Images. Thames www.wallsandgardens.eu/index.php/en/ Forts Map – Mark Beesley. have been like for the soldiers who lived there. Two Forts Way

Walk along this 3.75 miles (6km) route and see how the Coalhouse Fort Tilbury Fort landscape has changed since the late 19th Century. Coalhouse Fort was constructed between 1861 and The building of Tilbury Fort began in 1670 in the Before Tilbury Town was developed, the marshland was 1874 following concerns regarding the intentions of reign of Charles II, after the Dutch navy made a uninhabited. When the Tilbury Deep Water Docks the French Emperor Napolean III. devastating raid up the river . opened in 1886 housing was needed for the dock workers, and a new town was built. Come inside and have a look around the Come inside and explore the ammunition magazines Museum and Thameside Aviation Museum, or take and magazine passages to see what it was Along the way you will learn about the role the river part in a guided tour of the otherwise out of bounds like for the soldiers who lived here, or view our and its defences played during the Second World areas, including the magazines and roof area. exhibition which traces the role of the fort in the War and earlier conflicts. defence of London.

Cliffe Fort Gravesend

New Tavern Fort

Coalhouse Fort Tilbury Fort Tilbury Railway Station

Map showing the Thames Forts as they would have appeared c. 1877