Browndown Battery
Browndown Battery, also referred to erroneously in some sources as Browndown Fort, is a former military coastal defence fortification and base on the Southern shoreline of England in the county of Hampshire.Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Diving Museum and Fort Gomer.
Diving Museum
Museum
Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Diving Museum is situated 1,300 feet east of Browndown Battery.
Fort Gomer
Fort
Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Fort Gomer is situated 2,400 feet northeast of Browndown Battery.
Little Woodham
Museum
Photo: Mattp2005, Public domain.
Little Woodham, also known as "The Living History Village of Little Woodham" or "The Seventeenth Century Village", is a living museum dedicated to recreating life in a rural village in the mid-17th century. Little Woodham is situated 1 mile north of Browndown Battery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alverstoke and Lee-on-the-Solent.
Alverstoke
Suburb
Photo: Margaret Auerstedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alverstoke is a village in the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England. It stretches east–west from Fort Blockhouse, Haslar to Browndown Battery, and is centred 0.5 miles east of the shore of Stokes Bay and near the head of a creek which extends a mile westward from Portsmouth Harbour.
Lee-on-the-Solent
Suburb
Photo: AlanFord, Public domain.
Lee-on-the-Solent, often referred to as Lee-on-Solent, is a seaside district of the borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England, about five miles west of Portsmouth. Lee-on-the-Solent is situated 1½ miles northwest of Browndown Battery.
Rowner
Suburb
Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rowner is a small settlement which forms part of the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England. Rowner is situated 1½ miles north of Browndown Battery.
Browndown Battery
- Type: Military installation
- Description: grade II listed building in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK
- Category: artillery battery
- Location: Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.78723° or 50° 47′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.17459° or 1° 10′ 29″ westOpen location code
9C2WQRPG+V5OpenStreetMap ID
way 24597449OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryWikidata ID
Q4976460
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