Diving Museum

Diving Museum is a museum in Hampshire, South East England, England. Diving Museum is situated nearby to the historic site HMS Reclaim Submersible Observation Chamber, as well as near HMS Reclaim diving bell.

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″ north

Longitude

-1.1688° or 1° 10′ 8″ west

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

9C2WQRPJ+PF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 469070524

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q113370254

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Highlights include Wet Bell and HMS Reclaim Submersible Observation Chamber.

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