page_title: Chattenden and Lodge Hill Military Camps
section_title: Chattenden
hierarchical_section_title: Chattenden and Lodge Hill Military Camps / Origins / Chattenden
caption_attribution_description: Chettenden and Upnor Railway locomotive "Yorkshire"
context_page_description: Chattenden and Lodge Hill Military Camps were British Army training camps in Chattenden and Hoo St Werburgh in Kent. They were built as ordnance depots and functioned as such through to the second half of the twentieth century.
context_section_description: When it was realised that there was no room for further expansion of the storage facilities at Upnor, a nearby site inland at Chattenden was purchased, and in 1875 five magazines were built on a hillside (the contours of which helped provide a natural traverse for security and protection). Between them, the magazines were designed to hold 40,000 barrels of gunpowder (with space for more in times of war). A barracks was also built, a little to the south, to accommodate the eight officers and 120 men detailed to guard the site. The magazine compound and barracks were linked to Upnor by a narrow-gauge railway.
caption: Narrow-gauge locomotive in front of Chattenden barracks
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