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Fort Rowner

Fort Rowner is a palmerston fort in Gosport, Hampshire. It holds the status of a Grade II listed building. Our list has 108 more places within 15 km; first among them is HMS Victory, at 3.6 km.

Photo: Fort Rowner, Colin Babb (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Gosport

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 44%

#3,733 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Fort in Gosport

Inside Gosport

Fort Rowner is inside Gosport’s built-up area, with 32 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Grade II listed building

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.

When to go

Month by month

Afternoons in Gosport peak at 18–23°C, May to September.

Jan9° / 3°86 mm

Feb10° / 3°59 mm

Mar12° / 4°51 mm

Apr15° / 6°53 mm

May18° / 9°44 mm

Jun21° / 11°49 mm

Jul23° / 13°52 mm

Aug23° / 13°57 mm

Sep21° / 11°64 mm

Oct17° / 9°88 mm

Nov13° / 6°97 mm

Dec10° / 4°96 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Gosport, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Gosport. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Gosport’s full climate →

About

Fort Rowner

Articles on it exist in 2 languages.

Gosport’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Fort
Listed: Grade II listed building
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Gosport

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Getting your bearings

The orange dot is Fort Rowner; the numbers are the places near it, as listed below.

Towns near it

Nearby towns

Portsmouth, with 223,324 people, is the largest of the 5. Its own town leads; the rest list it too, closest first.

1 · It’s in town

Gosport

70,120 people · 57 places to visit

2 · 2 km west of it

Lee-on-the-Solent

24,307 people · 21 places to visit

3 · 2.5 km northwest of it

Peel Common

263 people · 12 places to visit

4 · 3.3 km northwest of it

Fareham

42,633 people · 20 places to visit

Compare the 5 towns

Town	Where Fort Rowner is	People	Places to visit
Gosport	It’s in town	70,120	57
Lee-on-the-Solent	2 km west of it	24,307	21
Peel Common	2.5 km northwest of it	263	12
Fareham	3.3 km northwest of it	42,633	20
Portsmouth	3.4 km east of it	223,324	64

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Choose from 108 places within 15 km, such as 2 historic ships, 2 museums and a historic house.

Historic shipHMS Victory3.6 km away 2

MuseumMary Rose3.8 km away 3

Historic shipHMS Warrior3.7 km away 4

Historic house · English HeritageOsborne House10 km away 5

AttractionSpinnaker Tower3.8 km away 6

Castle · English HeritagePortchester Castle4.6 km away 7

CathedralPortsmouth Cathedral4.3 km away 8

Museum · English HeritageFort Brockhurst1 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Fort Rowner in questions

Where is Fort Rowner?

Fort Rowner is in Gosport, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Fort Rowner?

Palmerston Fort in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK.

When is the best time to visit Fort Rowner?

May to September are the warmest months in Gosport, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Fort Rowner a listed building?

Yes: Grade II listed building.

What else is there to see near Fort Rowner?

Within 15 km: HMS Victory (3.6 km), Mary Rose (3.8 km), HMS Warrior (3.7 km) and Osborne House (10 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 Rowner: Colin Babb, 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
Osborne House: Humac45, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Spinnaker Tower: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Portchester Castle: Matthew Folley from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Portsmouth Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Fort Brockhurst: Michael Coppins, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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