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| Fort Southwick |
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| Brief Description: Fort Southwick showing outer fence, 1973. |
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| Subject Date: July 1973 |
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| Creator: Derek Dine, Hampshire County Library |
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| Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Full Description: Fort Southwick, completed in 1870 occupies the high part of the hill and held the water storage tanks for the other forts, feeding them through a brick lined aqueduct. This was the only connection between the forts. During WW2 Fort Southwick served as a HQ for Allied Commanders (1943 for Canadian and US forces). From 1938 to 1940 it held a section of the Ordnance Survey. A large complex of underground bunkers and command positions were excavated beneath the Victorian tunnels. It featured heavily in the preparation and operation of operation OVERLORD in 1944. It is still occupied by the Navy (as HQ and offices for the Commander in Chief Home Fleet) and is largely intact but its underground portions are no longer in use.
References:
1. Evans, Linda. Palmerston's Follies. Www.hgs-online.org.uk
2. Moore, David. Palmerston Forts Society. Fort Southwick. http://users.argonet.co.uk |
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| Place: Southwick, Winchester City, Hampshire |
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| Subject: building, tunnel, fort, Fort Southwick, aqueduct, water tank, bunker, hill, Portsdown Hill, war, OVERLORD, navy, Ordnance Survey |
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| Name Subject: Ordnance Survey |
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| Content Type: Photograph |
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| Location: Fareham Library |
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| Local Ref: 8/3/2 |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs2491-i-00-000.jpg |
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| IPR: Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council |
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