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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 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | hill building water tank bunker Portsdown Hill Fort Southwick fort war aqueduct Ordnance Survey OVERLORD navy tunnel | Temporal: | start=1973-07-01; end=1973-07-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Derek Dine, Hampshire County Library | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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