Fort Widley
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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
View from north of Fort Widley
North Caponier in the moat, Fort Widley
South side of the fort
RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun
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The Armstrong RBL 7-inch gun, also known as the 110-pounder, was a heavy caliber Armstrong gun, an early type of rifled breechloader.
A gun on a wooden slide carriage in the 19th century.
82 cwt gun construction
Breech mechanism
An Armstrong 7-inch (178 mm) rifled breechloader in the 19th century.