Fort Gilkicker, Portsmouth

Name: Fort Gilkicker
Address: Fort Gilkicker, Portsmouth, PO1 2 2, United Kingdom

#38 among attractions in Portsmouth

Forts and castles, Golf

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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. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi-circular arc with 22 casemates, to be armed with five twelve-inch guns, seventeen ten-inch guns and five nine-inch guns. The actual installed armament rather differed from this. In 1902 the RML guns were replaced by two 9.2-inch and two six-inch BL guns, and before the First World War the walls were further strengthened with substantial earthwork embankments. The fort was disarmed in 1956 and used for storage until 1999, and is currently in a state of disrepair. ()

Coordinates: 50°46'26"N, 1°8'29"W

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Fort GilkickerPortsmouth PO1 2 2 United Kingdom

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Nearby attractions include: Royal Navy Submarine Museum, HMS Alliance, HMS Dolphin, Fort Blockhouse.

1.3 miNE
Museum, Military museum, History museum
Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Portsmouth
34 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.
1.4 miNE
Ship
HMS Alliance, Gosport
36 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.
1.4 miNE
Military museum, Specialty museum, Museum
HMS Dolphin, Portsmouth
36 min walk • The seventeenth Royal Navy vessel to be named HMS Dolphin was the Royal Naval shore establishment sited at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport.
1.6 miNE
Forts and castles
Fort Blockhouse, Portsmouth
42 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.
1.1 miW
Beach
Stokes Bay, Portsmouth
28 min walk • Stokes Bay is an area of the Solent that lies just south of Gosport, between Portsmouth and Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. There is a shingle beach with views of Ryde and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight to the south and Fawley to the south west. The settlement of Alverstoke is close by.
0.4 miNE
Forts and castles
Fort Monckton, Portsmouth
11 min walk • 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.
1.6 miNE
Sailing, Marina
Haslar Marina, Portsmouth
41 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.
1.6 miNW
Forts and castles
Fort Gomer, Portsmouth
40 min walk • Fort Gomer was one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, the southernmost and first-built Polygonal fort in the defence line to the west of Gosport. It was located on land immediately to the west of the present Gomer Lane.
1.3 miNW
50°47'12"N • 1°9'43"W
Stanley Park, Portsmouth
33 min walk • Park
0.5 miNE
Golf
Haslar, Portsmouth
14 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".