Fort Monckton, Portsmouth

Name: Fort Monckton
Address: Portsmouth, United Kingdom

#73 among attractions in Portsmouth

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Fort Monckton is a historic military fort on the south-east shoreline of the Gosport peninsula, Hampshire. Built on the ruins of Haselworth Castle to protect Portsmouth Harbour at the start of the American War of Independence, it was rebuilt in the 1880s as a Palmerston fort. ()

Alternative names: Built: 1779 (245 years ago)Coordinates: 50°46'36"N, 1°8'0"W

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Portsmouth United Kingdom

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Fort Monckton – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Round Tower, Square Tower, Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Fort Gilkicker.

1.4 miNE
Forts and castles, Historical place, Military base
Round Tower, Portsmouth
37 min walk • The Round Tower is a fortification at the entrance to Portsmouth harbour. It is a Grade I listed building.
1.5 miNE
Forts and castles
Square Tower, Portsmouth
38 min walk • The Square Tower is one of the oldest parts of the fortifications of Portsmouth, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
0.9 miNE
Museum, Military museum, History museum
Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Portsmouth
24 min walk • The Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport is a maritime museum tracing the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day, and particularly the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from the navy's first submarine, Holland 1, to the nuclear-powered Vanguard-class submarines.
0.4 miSW
Forts and castles, Golf
Fort Gilkicker, Portsmouth
11 min walk • Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead.
1 miNE
Ship
HMS Alliance, Gosport
26 min walk • HMS Alliance is a Royal Navy A-class, Amphion-class or Acheron-class submarine, laid down towards the end of the Second World War and completed in 1947. The submarine is the only surviving example of the class, having been a memorial and museum ship since 1981.
1 miNE
Military museum, Specialty museum, Museum
HMS Dolphin, Portsmouth
26 min walk • The seventeenth Royal Navy vessel to be named HMS Dolphin was the Royal Naval shore establishment sited at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport.
1.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Fort Blockhouse, Portsmouth
32 min walk • Fort Blockhouse is a military establishment in Gosport, Hampshire, England, and the final version of a complicated site. At its greatest extent in the 19th century, the structure was part of a set of fortifications which encircled much of Gosport.
1.2 miNE
Sailing, Marina
Haslar Marina, Portsmouth
31 min walk • Haslar Marina is located inside Portsmouth Harbour, on the south coast of England, just to the west of the entrance. It can be easily identified by the bright green lightvessel Mary Mouse II permanently moored to the outside of its breakwater.
1.7 miNE
Museum, Shopping, Art gallery
Aspex, Portsmouth
43 min walk • Aspex Portsmouth is a contemporary visual art gallery located in the Gunwharf Quays area of Portsmouth. Formed in 1981 as the exhibitions arm of Art Space Portsmouth in a converted chapel in Brougham Road, Southsea, the gallery became a separate legal entity in the early 1990s.
~920 ftN
Golf
Haslar, Portsmouth
5 min walk • Haslar is on the south coast of England, at the southern tip of Alverstoke, on the Gosport peninsula, Hampshire. It takes its name from the Old English hæsel-ōra, meaning "hazel-landing place".
1.5 miNE
Neighbourhood
Portsmouth Point, Portsmouth
38 min walk • Portsmouth Point, or "Spice Island", is part of Old Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on the southern coast of England. The name Spice Island comes from the area's seedy reputation, as it was known as the "Spice of Life".