A view from the east looking across the barrack block with the gun casemates beyondA view from the parade at Fort Gilkicker showing the rear of the gun casemates
Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi-circular arc with 22 casemates, to be armed with five twelve-inch guns, seventeen ten-inch guns and five nine-inch guns. The actual installed armament rather differed from this. In 1902 the RML guns were replaced by two 9.2-inch and two six-inch BL guns, and before the First World War the walls were further strengthened with substantial earthwork embankments. The fort was disarmed in 1956 and used for storage until 1999. On 28th July 2022, the fort was sold at auction for just under £1.4M and planning has been granted for 26 homes. Since then a massive restoration project has been underway.
FortGilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead...
the new FortGilkicker and give Fort Monckton a minor defensive role in the defence of Portsmouth harbour. Very little was done to modify the fort during...
gauge railway was built from the bay to Fort Blockhouse for these operations, along with a pier. FortGilkicker was used in both world wars to protect...
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report". Retrieved 12 July 2022. Victorian Forts data sheet Fort Blockhouse and Submarine Mining on the FortGilkicker website 50°47′24″N 1°06′50″W / 50.79000°N...
complementary guns to counter armoured and unarmoured ships (blockers). FortGilkicker was remodeled for two 6 inch and two 9.2-inch B.L. guns at the east...
found in North America, and in the area from whence its name derives, FortGilkicker, in Gosport, Hampshire, UK. "Pachytychius haematocephalus Report". Integrated...
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batteries to close off the gap between the new fort at Fort Gomer, and the earlier fort at FortGilkicker, and Fort Monckton. This defensive moat was to become...
McLean, Virginia: CDSG Press. pp. 263–281. ISBN 978-0-9748167-3-9. FortGilkicker: Ranging the guns FM 4-15, Seacoast Artillery fire control and position...
Palmerston's Follies are sited within the parish, including FortGilkicker, a 19th-century coastal battery fort, which is located at the eastern end of Stokes Bay...
September 2020. "The Preservation of Thornycroft Coastal Motor Boat 331 at FortGilkicker". Hampshire County Museums Service. 1991. Archived from the original...
Elisabeth Margaret Hopkins (April 22, 1894 – April 1991), born in FortGilkicker, Hampshire, England, was a painter and writer in British Columbia. Elisabeth...
2005 Submarine Miners Volunteers. By Glyn Davies. Rootsweb. FortGilkicker website: Fort Monckton and the Submarine Mining Establishment Little Bermuda's...
com. "Submarine Miners Volunteers. By Glyn Davies. Rootsweb". "FortGilkicker website: Fort Monckton and the Submarine Mining Establishment". "Daily Alta...
75140; -1.13667 Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England. It is protected from all winds except those...
the 1860s, for the construction of the sea forts at Spithead, as well as FortGilkicker and St Helens Fort. In 1867 he was contracted together with George...
Portsmouth Naval Base in the United Kingdom, on September 21, 2009. Off the bows in the distance is FortGilkicker, and beyond (to the left) the Isle of Wight....
2005 Submarine Miners Volunteers. By Glyn Davies. Rootsweb. FortGilkicker website: Fort Monckton and the Submarine Mining Establishment Bulwark Of Empire:...
during which deep-draught ships can be handled. Spithead, an area off Gilkicker Point near Gosport, is known as the place where the Royal Navy is traditionally...
Country, archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Refortification of Gilkicker Point, near Portsmouth, TeamManley, archived from the original on 25 October...
Wells. The setting on the Gosport peninsula included landmarks such as Gilkicker Tower and Haslar Creek. Ananias (1898) Joscelyn's Pictures, 2nd edition...
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Stoke Lake (the southern branch). South East of Stoke Lake and along Gilkicker Point is the area of Clayhall. West, Northwest and South of Stoke Lake...
1934 and Paul Vyvyan born in 1948, who scattered his father's ashes off Gilkicker Point. Rayner, Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic p. 19 Rayner, Escort:...
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