Penny Street
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Penny Street
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 25 Sep 2010
This is the street at the rear of the former George Hotel. It has significance as it was here that Admiral Horatio Nelson stayed on his last night on English soil, 13th/14th September 1805. In the morning, because of the crowds at the front of the hotel on High Street, he came out of the back of the hotel and walked along Penny Street on his way to board a boat in which he was rowed out to HMS Victory waiting at Spithead. The street today probably bears no resemblance to that seen by Nelson. It is suggested that Penny Street is a coruption of Penitence Street, being the street that leads from the Domus Dei, the Royal Garrison Church, which is a few hundred metres behind us.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.789993
Longitude
-1.102199