Solent Coastal Defences - plan
Created | Updated Jul 27, 2006
BS quote: "There is no other area in the world that was as well fortified - we need to do this justice"
Roman/Saxon period:
Portchester (all periods)[English Heritage]
Norman Period:
motte near Gosport municipal dump.
Mediaeval period:
refurbishment? of what?
Tudor period:
Southsea Castle
Round Tower/Square Tower, Old Portsmouth
"move from longbows to cannon"
Civil War:
(anything?)
Napoleonic period:
dockyard defences ("wooden wall"?)
19th century forts on Portsdown Hill & Gosport approaches (aka Palmerston's Follies):
Fort Nelson (artillery museum)
Fort Purbrook
Fort Southwick
Fort Widley
Farlington Redoubt
Fort Fareham +5 (incl.Elson?)
World War 1:
(anything?)
World War 2:
Tank traps / Pill boxes / Gun emplacements
Recent Defences:
Admiralty Research Establishment (aka ASWE, DERA, etc)
Not yet classified:
Offshore forts (what period?)
Spitbank
Horse Sand
No Mans Land
St Helens
Island forts in Portsmouth Harbour (what period?)
Fort James
Fort Charles
Southsea (What period?)
Southsea Lumps
Fort Cumberland
Eastney Battery
Gosport (what period?)
Blockhouse(Brockhurst?)
Monkton
Gilkicker
Stokes Bay Lines
Brown Down Battery
Southampton Water (what period)
Calshot Castle
Hurst Castle
Isle of Wight fortifications
(need list)
Other installations of interest nearby
Southwick House (D-Day HQ, Parliamentary HQ during ECW)
Other information/trivia
1066 landing at Fareham creek
Roman/Saxon period:
Portchester (all periods)[English Heritage]
Norman Period:
motte near Gosport municipal dump.
Mediaeval period:
refurbishment? of what?
Tudor period:
Southsea Castle
Round Tower/Square Tower, Old Portsmouth
"move from longbows to cannon"
Civil War:
(anything?)
Napoleonic period:
dockyard defences ("wooden wall"?)
19th century forts on Portsdown Hill & Gosport approaches (aka Palmerston's Follies):
Fort Nelson (artillery museum)
Fort Purbrook
Fort Southwick
Fort Widley
Farlington Redoubt
Fort Fareham +5 (incl.Elson?)
World War 1:
(anything?)
World War 2:
Tank traps / Pill boxes / Gun emplacements
Recent Defences:
Admiralty Research Establishment (aka ASWE, DERA, etc)
Not yet classified:
Offshore forts (what period?)
Spitbank
Horse Sand
No Mans Land
St Helens
Island forts in Portsmouth Harbour (what period?)
Fort James
Fort Charles
Southsea (What period?)
Southsea Lumps
Fort Cumberland
Eastney Battery
Gosport (what period?)
Blockhouse(Brockhurst?)
Monkton
Gilkicker
Stokes Bay Lines
Brown Down Battery
Southampton Water (what period)
Calshot Castle
Hurst Castle
Isle of Wight fortifications
(need list)
Other installations of interest nearby
Southwick House (D-Day HQ, Parliamentary HQ during ECW)
Other information/trivia
1066 landing at Fareham creek
