Upnor

Upnor meant "At The Bank" being "Æt Þæm Ōre" in Old English and "Atten Ore" in Middle English and "Atte Nore" in 1292. However, the meaning changed to "Upon The Bank" (Middle English: "Uppan Ore") and by 1374 it was "Upnore". A skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant was excavated in August 1911, during the construction of the Royal Engineers' Upnor Hard.

The British Army used this area to train a contingent from the 8th (Railway) Company Royal Engineers (RE). The British Army built a Standard Gauge Railway from Chattenden to Upnor during October 1872 to April 1873. This was abandoned before the 16 December 1881 and a gauge line was built in 1885 One branch went to Lower Upnor, and the other to the Army Camp by Tower Hill. This line was used to supply armaments from Chattenden, the Lodge Hill Ammunition Depot (LHAD) and the standard gauge at Sharnal Street, to the warships of the Royal Navy and the Upnor Magazine. The service closed on 19 May 1961. From August 1965 to February 1967, the Royal Engineers converted the route from Lower Upnor to…

The Lower Upnor site of the Royal Naval Armaments Depot was put up for sale in October 2014. Two years later, the Grade II* listed 'B' Magazine was being converted into offices, while a residential building of similar proportions was being erected on the footprint of the demolished 'A' Magazine of the Royal Naval Armaments Depot; behind the 'A' Magazine and 'B' Magazine, more apartments were planned within the surviving concrete traverses (blast walls) of a demolished set of shell-filling rooms which date from October 1906. Meanwhile, the surviving buildings to the north were also being refurbished for light commercial and retail use. The inland British Army Depots or Regimental Depots,…