While training for his promotion, his medical examination revealed that he was suffering from tuberculosis and was admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar in Gosport near Portsmouth.

Abingdon is the largest town in southern England with no rail service ( except Gosport, which is part of greater Portsmouth, and Canvey Island ).

The L & SWR's energies were not confined to the gauge wars in the early years, and branch lines were constructed to Salisbury ( as part of the thrust to the West ), Richmond, Gosport ( for Portsmouth ), and Godalming.

The L & SR was already planning a line to Gosport on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour.

In 1841 the LSWR opened two separately-built lines that provided a link to the town of Gosport, less than a mile away from Portsmouth across Portsmouth Harbour.

Here the route joined the newly-built line to Gosport station where a ferry service completed the journey to Portsmouth itself.

Even before the extension, local troops seized the Norfolk area and threatened the Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth.

While the first defences focused on Portsmouth harbour, in concert with the Fortifications of Gosport, later defensive structures protected the whole of Portsea Island and an increasing distance inland.

At the same time the fortifications of Portsmouth and Gosport became just part of the wider Fortifications of the Solent.

On the shoreline a new battery was built at the end of Portsmouth point facing Gosport.

* Castles and Forts of Portsmouth and Gosport

The University was founded as the Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and the Arts in 1869.

Originally the LSWR route from London to Portsmouth was via a branch from Southampton to Gosport, where passengers then went on the chain ferry across Portsmouth harbour.

Portsdown Hill is a long chalk hill in Hampshire, England, offering good views over Portsmouth, the Solent, Hayling Island and Gosport, with the Isle of Wight beyond.

After resigning from the U. S. Navy in May 1861, he began working for the Confederate States Navy at the Gosport ( Norfolk ) Navy Yard, at Portsmouth.

The former Royal Naval Hospital Haslar in Gosport, near Portsmouth, became the tri-service Royal Hospital Haslar, however it was decommissioned in March 2007.

When Elizabeth's uncle William Attwick died in 1774 she inherited property in Hampshire including the Fontley Ironworks in Funtley near Gosport along with a contract from Portsmouth Dockyard for the supply of mooring chains and other naval stores made of iron.

She was taken by road to Camper and Nicholson's yard in Gosport, Portsmouth Harbour, where she had been built and launched in 1966, for restoration.

During the night of April 20, 1861, the Commander of the U. S. Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk County, Virginia ( now the Norfolk Naval Yard in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia ) Charles S. McCauley, fearing he could not hold the yard against the rebels and although without instructions from authorities in Washington, D. C., ordered the evacuation and burning of the yard and any ships that could not be sailed away, including the USS Merrimack.

The city of Portsmouth lies to the east on Portsea Island, and Gosport to the west on the mainland.

Portsmouth Harbour, taken from Gosport showing Portsdown Hill in the centre and the city of Portsmouth on the right including the home of the Royal Navy, HMNB Portsmouth.

In addition there are ferry services to Gosport ( on the mainland ), Hayling Island and the Isle of Wight.

Gosport Harbor, which is created by the islands and connecting breakwaters, is deep and fairly protected, and moorings are available for visiting boats.

The final group are those on the Gosport peninsula.

There are displays demonstrating the living and working conditions of the soldiers who manned the fort, and views over Portsmouth, the Solent, Hayling Island and Gosport, with the Isle of Wight beyond.

Spithead, an area off Gilkicker Point near Gosport, is known as the place where the Royal Navy is traditionally reviewed by the monarch of the day.

Jackson's first band, in Gosport, was Edward Bear ( not to be confused with the 1970s Canadian band fronted by Larry Evoy ).

The Gosport Shipyard was founded on November 1, 1767 by Andrew Sprowle on the western shore of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk County in the Virginia Colony.

In 1799 the keel of USS Chesapeake, one of the first six frigates authorized by Congress, was laid, making her the first ship built in Gosport for the U. S. Navy.

Royal Navy hardtack during Queen Victoria's reign was made by machine at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, Hampshire, stamped with the Queen's mark and the number of the oven in which they were baked.

Royal Navy hardtack during Queen Victoria's reign were made by machine at the Royal Clarence Victualing Yard at Gosport, Hampshire, stamped with the Queen's mark and the number of the oven in which they were baked.

It appears likely that up to the end of World War I, the Royal Arsenal would have been guarded by the Metropolitan Police Force, as they also guarded the Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, in Dorset and the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Priddy's Hard, Gosport up to that time.

Commander Rodgers ' first war assignment was to go with Commodore Louis M. Goldsborough to Gosport Navy Yard on April 20, 1861, where with other officers he was to remove Naval vessels and assets so they could not be used by the Confederates.

This commemorates a recent murder of a Danish exchange student by a sex attacker from Gosport.

Another, the Gosport House, was once run by Lemuel's brother Origen Caswell.

A blockhouse was first built on the Gosport side of the harbour in 1431 after authorisation by Henry VI.

The complex was demolished in 1971 by Gosport Council, with its land now used for the promenade and remembrance gardens.

# The Book of Gosport by Lesley Burton and Brian Musselwhite

After the Gosport Advanced Line of Fort Brockhurst, Fort Elson, Fort Rowner, Fort Grange and Fort Gomer had been approved by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom a decision was made to build an outer line of three more forts two miles in advance of the Gosport Advanced Line.

It was promoted by the Stokes Bay Pier and Railway Company to provide a landing for a rival ferry service from Gosport.

The film briefly uses several railway locations including the level crossing at Fort Brockhurst on the ( by then ' goods only ') Gosport branch in Hampshire.

* February 2 – The body of Queen Victoria is conveyed by the London & South Western, London, Brighton & South Coast and Great Western Railways from Gosport via London to Windsor, England for her funeral.