Kent Coastal Walk - The Isle of Grain.

✅ If you haven’t already, please LIKE 👍 SUBSCRIBE 🔔️️️ COMMENT 💬 SHARE ↗️ Subscribing helps my channel grow and encourages and motivates me to get out and about and add more content. A short walk south along the shore line at Grain, and a visit to a few of the Isle of Grain Coastal Artillery Defences. GRAIN TOWER BATTERY... Grain Tower Battery – Built in 1855, this historic fortification is open to the public and offers stunning views of the Thames Estuary. The Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain. Standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century, and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type. It was built to protect the important dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham from a perceived French naval threat during a period of tension in the 1850s. Grain Tower stands about 500 metres (1,600 ft) offshore at the eastern tip of the Isle of Grain, where the mouth of the Medway meets the Thames. Its location enabled the tower's arc of fire to overlap with that of the guns at Garrison Point on the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side of the Medway. DUMMY BATTERY... Dummy Battery, originally known as Grain Battery, is a disused fortified gun battery located about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of the village of Grain, Kent at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Medway. Completed in 1865, it supported two nearby coast artillery batteries at Grain Fort and Grain Wing Battery, a short distance to the north. The battery's arc of fire overlapped with Grain Tower just offshore and with Garrison Point Fort on the Isle of Sheppey across the other side of the Medway. It consisted of an earthwork with a concrete core supporting several gun emplacements with magazines below. It appears to have gone out of service as a battery by the time of the First World War, though it briefly took on a role in anti-aircraft defence. ____________________________________________________ If you have any questions about the route or an area I am walking, kayaking, or camping in, why not get in touch via Facebook, or comment below the video.   / davidwilsonoutandabout   Donate  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DWoutand... Your support is greatly appreciated. Have an awesome day 😃 Dave 👍 WEBSITE: David Wilson Out and About (Website/Blog) https://www.davidwilsonoutandabout.co... Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DWOu...