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″ north

Longitude

-1.17459° or 1° 10′ 29″ west

Open location code

9C2WQRPG+V5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 24597449

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=military

Wikidata ID

Q4976460

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