Nelson Monument

The Nelson Monument, 120 feet tall on a granite base, stands on Portsdown Hill about 2 miles north of Portsmouth Harbour on the south coast of England.

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Type: Monument
Description: monument on Portsdown Hill in Boarhunt, Hampshire, England, UK
Also known as: “Nelson Monument, Portsdown Hill” and “The Nelson Monument”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Nelson and Portchester railway station.

Fort Nelson

Museum

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Fort Nelson, in the civil parish of Boarhunt in the English county of Hampshire, is one of five defensive forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill in the 1860s, overlooking the important naval base of Portsmouth and is a Grade I Listed Building. Fort Nelson is situated 1,100 feet west of Nelson Monument.

Portchester railway station

Railway station

Photo: Bashereyre, Public domain.

Portchester railway station serves the village of Portchester in Hampshire, England, 87 miles 35 chains from London Waterloo. It was first opened by the LSWR in 1848 on their line from Fareham to Portsmouth. Portchester railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of Nelson Monument.

Fort Southwick

Fort

Photo: Martyn Pattison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, England. Fort Southwick is situated 1 mile east of Nelson Monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Southwick and Wallington.

Southwick

Village

Photo: Bashereyre, Public domain.

Southwick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Southwick and Widley, in the Winchester district, in Hampshire, England. 1 mile north of the Portsmouth boundary measured from Portsea Island.

Wallington

Neighborhood

Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wallington is a village in Hampshire, part of the borough of Fareham. It is situated between Portsmouth and Southampton near where the River Wallington enters Portsmouth Harbour. Wallington is situated 1½ miles west of Nelson Monument.

Fareham

Photo: Julian Colander, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fareham is a town in Hampshire, approximately half-way between the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton, The town has been linked with brick making, notably, the production of the 'Fareham Reds', examples of the bricks in use on the Royal Albert Hall, in London and iron forging from the ironmaster, named Henry Cort.

Nelson Monument

Category: historic site
Location: Boarhunt, Winchester District, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.86052° or 50° 51′ 38″ north

Longitude

-1.13413° or 1° 8′ 3″ west

Open location code

9C2WVV68+68

OpenStreetMap ID

node 21382811

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

Wikidata ID

Q16901530

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Highlights include Fort Nelson Nature Reserve and Paw Paddock Portsdown Hill.

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