Fortifications of Portsmouth
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The fortifications of Portsmouth are extensive due to its strategic position on the English Channel and role as home to the Royal Navy. For this reason, Portsmouth was, by the 19th century, one of the
Round Tower and Point Battery
Copy of de Gomme's plan of 'Portsmouth, the Docke, Gosport town and Gosport pointe' in 1668.
The pair of links from one of the harbour boom chains that is on display at Southsea Castle
Portsbridge Creek
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Portsbridge Creek, known officially as Portsea Creek, formerly as Portsea Lake and informally as Ports Creek, Port Creek, Portcreek and Canal Creek, is a tidal waterway just off the southern coast of
Part of Portsbridge Creek with the tide half in
A plan of the fort defending the creek's crossing in 1660.
Plan and profiles of Portsea Bridge Fort, 1747 (by J. P. Desmaretz). Note that the creek is named as Portsea Lake.
The remains of one of the dams built in the 1850s