Current Usage
Fort Amherst is managed by the Fort Amherst Heritage Trust who open the fort to visitors on Sundays between Easter and September and run a program of regular events including ghost tours and over night paranormal investigations through the tunnels. Halloween tours also take place, where guests make their way through the dark rooms and passages
Some of the cannons can be heard on Sundays throughout the year and periodically during school holidays. Ghost tours traditionally take place one Friday evening a month and during the October school half-term.
It was one of the filming locations for the 1986 Warner Bros. film The Mission.
On Sundays, during the summer 2008 season, the Fort was open to the public, without charge, to promote the future Great Lines Heritage Park and the proposed World Heritage Site application for Chatham Dockyard and its Defences.
Fort Amherst is operated by charities. The Fort Amherst Heritage Trust and Medway Historical Ordnance.
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment under Royal Warrant of the Royal Engineers at Brompton Barracks (the Royal School of Military Engineering). Therefore a team of Royal Engineers designed, built and assembled the Bicentenary Bridge to mark this special anniversary. The bridge leads to a part of Fort Amhurst also known as Spur Battery and to the Inner Lines (the Naploean defensive ditches). It is only accessible at special times and during guided visits.
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