Fort Monckton
Fort Monckton is a fort in Gosport. On the official register, it is a scheduled monument. Look also at HMS Victory, 3.2 km away, first of 118 more within 15 km.
Fort in Gosport
Inside Gosport
Fort Monckton is inside Gosport’s built-up area, with 43 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Scheduled monument
On the official list of protected heritage; Gosport has 160 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Month by month
The warmest afternoons in Gosport run May to September, at 18–23°C.
Fort Monckton
Articles on it exist in 5 languages.
- Type
- Fort
- Listed
- Scheduled monument
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 5 languages
- Town
- in Gosport
Fort Monckton on the map
The orange dot is Fort Monckton; the numbers are the places near it, as listed below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Gosport’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Bases for a visit
Portsmouth, with 223,324 people, is the largest of the 3. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.
Gosport
Portsmouth
Lee-on-the-Solent
Compare the 3 towns
| Town | Where Fort Monckton is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gosport | It’s in town | 70,120 | 57 |
| Portsmouth | 2.3 km northeast of it | 223,324 | 64 |
| Lee-on-the-Solent | 3.7 km northwest of it | 24,307 | 21 |
Pair Fort Monckton with these
Choose from 118 places within 15 km, such as 3 historic ships, a museum and an attraction.
Historic shipHMS Victory3.2 km away2
MuseumMary Rose3.1 km away3
Historic shipHMS Warrior2.9 km away4
AttractionSpinnaker Tower2.7 km away5
Historic house · English HeritageOsborne House10 km away6
CathedralPortsmouth Cathedral2.5 km away7
Castle · English HeritagePortchester Castle6.8 km away8
Historic shipHMS Holland 11.5 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Quick answers on Fort Monckton
Where is Fort Monckton?
Fort Monckton is in Gosport, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Fort Monckton?
Fort in Gosport, UK.
When is the best time to visit Fort Monckton?
May to September are the warmest months in Gosport, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
Is Fort Monckton a listed building?
Yes: scheduled monument.
What else is there to see near Fort Monckton?
Within 15 km: HMS Victory (3.2 km), Mary Rose (3.1 km), HMS Warrior (2.9 km) and Spinnaker Tower (2.7 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Fort Monckton: gordon james brown, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Victory: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Rose: Mary Rose Trust, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Warrior: geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Spinnaker Tower: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Osborne House: Humac45, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Portsmouth Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Portchester Castle: Matthew Folley from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Holland 1: Flickr user "zongo69" : https://www.flickr.com/photos/zongo, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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