Fort Gomer
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.Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Diving Museum and Fort Grange.
Diving Museum
Museum
Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Diving Museum is situated 1,700 feet south of Fort Gomer.
Fort Grange
Fort
Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort Grange is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England. After Gomer and Elson forts had been approved in 1852, further consideration led to a decision to fill the gap between them by three more forts, and Grange is the most southerly of the three. Fort Grange is situated 2,900 feet north of Fort Gomer.
Browndown Battery
Military installation
Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Browndown Battery is situated 2,400 feet southwest of Fort Gomer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alverstoke and Rowner.
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.
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.
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 Fort Gomer.
Fort Gomer
- Type: Fort
- Description: former fort in Gosport, England
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Gosport District, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.79102° or 50° 47′ 28″ northLongitude
-1.1663° or 1° 9′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C2WQRRM+CFOpenStreetMap ID
way 305692493OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortWikidata ID
Q5471232
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