Portsmouth Study Tour

Joining Instructions and Tour Guide

If  you are joining the Study Tour you can download the Joining Instructions and Tour Guide from this page. You will have also received an email with this information.

Following the Fortifications at RIsk Conference at Fort Brockhurst on 5th September 2025 there will be a weekend of related study visits in Gosport and Portsmouth. Many of the sites listed are not normally open to the public. 

This study tour is open to FSG and Palmerston Forts Society members and invited guests.

Programme 

Saturday 6th September - Gosport

• Fort Gilkicker
• Stokes Bay Lines/ Diving Museum/ Battery No 2
• Forts Rowner and Grange

There is an optional pub meal in the evening during which we will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the FSG. This will be at additional cost paid at the venue. 

Sunday 7th September - Portsmouth 

• Fort Purbrook
• Fort Cumberland  
• Hot Walls, Round Tower
• Kings Bastion, Long Curtain  
• Lumps Fort
• Southsea Castle

Monday 8th September

We are not planning an organised programme. For those wishing to stay in the area for another day there are many military history themed sites open to the public nearby. For example Fort Nelson, the Historic Dockyard, the D-Day Museum, Southsea Castle etc.   

Deposit 

To confirm your place please book your ticket below. The costs cover entry charges and donations to the sites we are visiting. We are terming this a deposit but are hopeful that it will be the final cost unless there are any, as yet unknown, expenses. 

You will need to make your own arrangements for accommodation and transport. We will facilitate car sharing for those without their own car.