The pipeline now leaves the residential area and enters open fields with the hedgerows more or less as they were in 1939.

Google Earth Aerial View

Location R, looking north. The pipeline ran alongside this fence probably on the other side. Fort Nelson is on the right skyline. 

The inset shows a marker post which is in the boundary hedge behind the camera just where the pipeline turns west. The letters VP72M are written on it. Does anyone know what this means?

Location S looking west. The dogleg in the north hedgerow can be seen on the right. The pipeline runs across this field and under the boundary hedge on the left into Wicor sports ground. 

Once inside the sports ground the pipeline turns 45 degrees south and makes for the upper reaches of Portsmouth Harbour - sometimes called Fareham Creek. Here it crosses under the water making landfall in Gosport just east of Foxbury Point.

Google Earth Aerial View

Location T looking southwest towards Wicor Hard. The pipeline makes for the sea in a direct line through the gap in the trees. 

Wicor Hard - location U looking northeast. The pipeline entered the sea at this point.

Wicor Hard - location U looking southwest to DARA Fleetlands (Defence Aviation Repair Agency) in Gosport. The post in the centre of the photo looks as if it was a pipeline marker; there is another close to the other shore. 

The "PORTSMOUTH NEWS" carried a report in the late 1990s which stated that the harbour section of the pipeline had been removed, resulting in 200 gallons of fuel oil spilling into Fareham Creek and threatening wildlife.