Golden Hill Fort

Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to provide manpower to man the defences at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England.

Photo: Warren Whyte, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Fort
Description: 1863-1872 defensible barracks building at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Also known as: “Golden Hill Fort: buried remains and outer defences”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include West Wight Sports Centre and All Saints’ Church, Freshwater.

West Wight Sports Centre

Community center

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West Wight Sports and Community Centre is a registered charity providing sports, health and fitness to the West Wight. Based in Moa place, Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight, the sports and community centre has swimming pools, sports hall, gym, cafe, meeting rooms, exercise classes, community kitchen, IT suite, hair salon, and hydrotherapy. West Wight Sports Centre is situated 2,900 feet south of Golden Hill Fort.

All Saints’ Church, Freshwater

Church

Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.

All Saints' Church, Freshwater is a parish church in the Church of England located in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. All Saints’ Church, Freshwater is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Golden Hill Fort.

Dimbola Museum and Galleries

Museum

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Dimbola was the home and workplace of the Victorian pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, where she lived from 1860 to 1875 on the Isle of Wight It is now a museum and galleries dedicated to her life and work which also showcases contemporary exhibitions of photographers from around the world. Dimbola Museum and Galleries is situated 1¼ miles south of Golden Hill Fort.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norton Green and Freshwater.

Norton Green

Hamlet

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Norton Green is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight. It is located just north of Freshwater in the west of the island.

Freshwater

Village

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Yarmouth is an attractive little town at the western tip of the Isle of Wight, just offshore of the South East of England. Everything in Yarmouth seems to be on a small scale; small narrow streets nestle against a small castle and harbour, and the ferry terminal is actually built against the castle walls.

Colwell Bay

Village

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Colwell Bay is a bay in the west of the Isle of Wight. It is located between the towns of Totland and Yarmouth. The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle situated at the end of a long peninsula just under a mile to the northwest.

Golden Hill Fort

Categories: barracks, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Freshwater, Isle of Wight, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.68913° or 50° 41′ 21″ north

Longitude

-1.52169° or 1° 31′ 18″ west

Elevation

161 feet (49 metres)

Open location code

9C2WMFQH+M8

GeoNames ID

12032072

Wikidata ID

Q5579556

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In Other Languages

“Golden Hill Fort” goes by many names.

Japanese: “ゴールデンヒルフォート”

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