Fort Purbrook

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Fort Purbrook by Martyn Pattison as part of the Geograph project.

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Fort Purbrook

Image: © Martyn Pattison Taken: 10 Apr 2005

This was another of the "Palmerston Forts" built to protect Portsmouth from a land attack. It is now an activity centre and regularly hosts craft fairs.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

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Latitude
50.854086
Longitude
-1.042438