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
Hilsea Lines
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The Hilsea Lines are a line of 18th- and 19th-century fortifications built at Hilsea to protect the northern approach to Portsea Island, an island off the southern coast of England which forms the maj
One of the emplacements in bastion 1 of the Hilsea Lines
'Plan of the Lines at Portsea-Lake near Portsmouth', dated 1757.
The inside of one of the Hilsea Lines' gun casements
A section of the moat that used form part of Hilsea lagoon