{"id":2327,"date":"2015-08-30T21:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2015-08-30T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:15:40","slug":"fort-brockhurst-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"Fort Brockhurst &#8211; Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8801.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8801.jpg\" alt=\"Fort entrance with footbridge\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8801.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8801-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>English Heritage<\/em><br \/>\nFort Brockhurst is one of a large number of forts built to defend Portmouth in the Victorian era.  It is one of five outward-facing forts positioned to defend Gosport against a land attack by the French. It never fired a shot in anger, and never received its full complement of guns, but remained in use as a barracks till after the Second World War.<br \/>\nOf the four surviving forts of this group of 5, this is the only fort open to the public.<br \/>\nThe fort is surrounded by a water-filled moat, and another moat surrounds the circular keep which was intended as a final refuge should the rest of the enclosure be overrun. Visitors can enter spaces including the keep, parade ground, the Institute welfare building for soldiers (now a museum), a barrack room, armourer&#8217;s workshop, ablutions room and walk along the ramparts.<br \/>\nAdmission is free.<br \/>\nNote that the fort is only open for around 1 day a month and it opens at 11am rather than the usual EH 10am.  If you arrive early, you cam walk the perimeter of the moat.<br \/>\nThere is free parking for cars in front of the fort. (Width restriction).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2351\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8802.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8802-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Parade ground\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2351\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade ground<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2352\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8811.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8811-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Keep circular courtyard\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2352\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep circular courtyard<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2353\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8813.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8813-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Keep vault with cannon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2353\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep vault with cannon<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2354\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8818.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Brockhurst_8818-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Washroom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2354\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washroom<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Heritage Fort Brockhurst is one of a large number of forts built to defend Portmouth in the Victorian era. It is one of five outward-facing forts positioned to defend Gosport against a land attack by the French. It never fired a shot in anger, and never received its full complement of guns, but remained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fort Brockhurst &#8211; Hampshire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}