File:ChathamMedway.jpg
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Engraving of "Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt" from Ireland's History of Kent, Vol. 4, 1831. It appears between pages 348 and 349. Drawn by G. Sheppard, engraved by R. Roffe.
[This view is taken looking northwards down the River Medway (Chatham Reach) towards the estuary. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" class="extiw" title="w:Chatham Dockyard">Chatham Dockyard</a> is on right hand bank of the river. To the right of the dockyard, the elevated area is known as the Great Lines, or Chatham Lines. The built up area sunk between the Lines and the hill from which the view is taken, consists of the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham" class="extiw" title="w:Chatham">Chatham</a> on the right, merging into the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Kent" class="extiw" title="w:Rochester, Kent">Rochester</a> to the left. The spur of land from the left is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frindsbury" class="extiw" title="w:Frindsbury">Frindsbury</a>. (Note by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:JackyR&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:JackyR (page does not exist)">User:JackyR</a>)]
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| current | 09:09, 5 January 2017 | | 862 × 524 (433 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>Engraving of "Chatham Dockyard from Fort Pitt" from Ireland's History of Kent, Vol. 4, 1831. It appears between pages 348 and 349. Drawn by G. Sheppard, engraved by R. Roffe. </p> <p>[This view is taken looking northwards down the River Medway (Chatham Reach) towards the estuary. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" class="extiw" title="w:Chatham Dockyard">Chatham Dockyard</a> is on right hand bank of the river. To the right of the dockyard, the elevated area is known as the Great Lines, or Chatham Lines. The built up area sunk between the Lines and the hill from which the view is taken, consists of the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham" class="extiw" title="w:Chatham">Chatham</a> on the right, merging into the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Kent" class="extiw" title="w:Rochester, Kent">Rochester</a> to the left. The spur of land from the left is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frindsbury" class="extiw" title="w:Frindsbury">Frindsbury</a>. (Note by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:JackyR&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:JackyR (page does not exist)">User:JackyR</a>)] </p> <table lang="left" class="toccolours mw-content-en layouttemplate commons-file-information-table" cellpadding="2" style="width: 100%; direction:ltr;"><tr> <th class="type fileinfo-paramfield">Camera location</th> <td style="border:none;"> <span class="plainlinksneverexpand"><a class="external text" href="//tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=File%3AChathamMedway.jpg¶ms=051.381600_N_0000.517400_E_globe:Earth_type:camera_&language=en">51° 22′ 53.76″ N, 0° 31′ 02.64″ E</a></span> <a class="mw-kartographer-maplink no-icon" mw-data="interface" data-style="osm-intl" href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Map/13/51.3816/0.5174" data-zoom="13" data-lat="51.3816" data-lon="0.5174" data-overlays='["_1a076a474c59822132bca48759d7054a33b24358"]'><img alt="Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap." src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg/20px-Openstreetmap_logo.svg.png" title="Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap." width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg/30px-Openstreetmap_logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg/40px-Openstreetmap_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="256"></a> </td> <td style="border:none;">View this and other nearby images on: <a class="external text" href="//tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php?zoom=16&lat=051.381600&lon=0000.517400">OpenStreetMap</a> - <a class="external text" href="//tools.wmflabs.org/geocommons/earth.kml?latdegdec=051.381600&londegdec=0000.517400&scale=10000&commons=1">Google Earth</a> </td> <td style="border:none;"> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding" title="Commons:Geocoding"><img alt="info" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Circle-information.svg/18px-Circle-information.svg.png" width="18" height="18" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Circle-information.svg/27px-Circle-information.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Circle-information.svg/36px-Circle-information.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="225" data-file-height="225"></a><span class="geo" style="display:none"> 51.381600; 0.517400</span> </td> </tr></table>(Note by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ClemRutter" title="User:ClemRutter">User:ClemRutter</a>) |
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