Location
On Portsdown Hill at the junction of Portsdown Hill Road, Monument Lane and Nelson Lane.

Memorial
Lord Nelson Column
Inscription (Front)
CONSECRATED TO THE MEMORY OF VISCOUNT LORD NELSON. BY THE ZEALOUS ATTACHMENT OF ALL THOSE WHO FOUGHT AT TRAFALGAR TO PERPETUATE HIS TRIUMPH AND THEIR REGRET 1805. FOUNDATION STONE LAID JULY 1807.

 
Inscription (Back)
THE BRITISH FLEET CONSISTED OF
TWENTY SEVEN SHIPS OF THE LINE
OF FRANCE AND SPAIN THIRTY THREE
NINETEEN OF WHICH WERE TAKEN
OR DESTROYED.

 

Further Information
See: The National Maritime Museum