🏠 Indoor & outdoorGardens🆓 Free entryEducationalSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Paid parking
- Dogs welcome
Car park about 60 metres from the fort entrance; £2 charge for non-members, free for members with a valid English Heritage car sticker. Access from car park to entrance is level.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Fort Brockhurst is one of the forts built in the 1850s and 1860s to protect Portsmouth and its harbour. It sits on the north side of Gosport and is looked after by English Heritage. Much of the fort is largely unaltered, so families can walk across the parade ground, look at the gun ramps and the moated keep, and see the washrooms and armoury. Visitors can read about the defences and the soldiers who garrisoned the site, and wartime damage from the Second World War is still visible on parts of the structure. The grounds suit a relaxed outdoor visit, and the site is popular for a picnic. Dogs on leads are welcome. The fort also hosts community events and craft fairs through the year, which give younger visitors something livelier to join in with. Because access is limited to certain days, check the venue's own listing before setting out.
Limited open days April to October; check before travelling.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Safety pinsStraps break.
- Sting relief
- Sun hat
- Toilet rollAssume the worst about the facilities and you'll never be wrong.
- Zip-lock bagsThe shell collection, the wet swimming costume, the half-eaten sandwich.
- AntihistamineStings and pollen, both far from a pharmacy.
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