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    Priddy's Hard is a former military installation in Gosport on the south coast of England, named for the original landowner and the firm beach found there...
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    that extend to the inland areas of the peninsula, Hardway (including Priddy's Hard and Forton Lake) Elson, Brockhurst, Bridgemary and Rowner. Hoeford (A32...
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    including employment as a semaphore station in 1817. Priddy's Hard began life as Priddy's Hard Fort; however in 1768 King George III authorised the construction...
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    Victualling Yard, Gosport RNAD Gosport: a composite site which included: RNAD Priddy's Hard (1776) gunpowder storage and shell-filling facility. Closed 1988 – now...
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    gunpowder magazine depots (nearby, but at a more-or-less safe distance): at Priddy's Hard near Gosport (from 1771) and at Keyham Point near Devonport (from 1775)...
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    Buckler's Hard, Hampshire Priddy's Hard, Gosport, Hampshire The Hard Interchange, Portsmouth, Hampshire, next to the Hard Dock (maritime) Hard[usurped]...
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    The Trust is also managing the regeneration of the 30 acre site at Priddy's Hard, Gosport. The first development phase is due for completion in the summer...
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    Firepower is situated in the former Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Priddy's Hard, in Gosport, Hampshire, England. It now forms part of the National Museum...
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    Portsmouth's (which had been overtaken by dockyard expansion) was relocated to Priddy's Hard, where manufacture (initially of small arms ammunition, later of shells...
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    1920s. These were intended to support the existing Navy arms depot at Priddy's Hard to the southeast. RNAD Bedenham stored explosives such as cordite, linked...
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