Diving Museum
Diving Museum is a museum in Hampshire, South East England, England. Diving Museum is situated nearby to the motorhome stopover Stokes Bay Home Park, as well as near the recreation area Bay House School Playing Field.Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: Museum in Gosport, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “The Diving Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Gomer and 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 1,700 feet north of Diving Museum.
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 1,300 feet west of Diving Museum.
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 1 mile north of Diving Museum.
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. Rowner is situated 2 miles north of Diving Museum.
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 2 miles northwest of Diving Museum.
Diving Museum
- Categories: maritime museum, independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.78676° or 50° 47′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.1688° or 1° 10′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C2WQRPJ+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 469070524OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q113370254
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Highlights include Stokes Bay Home Park and Bay House School Playing Field.
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