Forts · South East England
Fort Widley
In or near Purbrook.
Fort Widley — Fort in Portsmouth, UK.
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About
Fort Widley is a fort in south east. Established 1860. (Fort in Portsmouth, UK.) According to Wikipedia: "Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. It was designed, along with the other Palmerston Forts atop Portsdown, to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear."
- Coordinates
- 50.8544, -1.0683
- Established
- 1860
Sources
- osm: w22927464 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Fort Widley (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Fort Widley - geograph.org.uk - 1232.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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