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The Buckle plaque

Commemorative plaque
The Buckle plaque
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What is recorded here

The public map records this plaque for The Buckle. Its recorded inscription reads: In was here at the Buckle that Sir Nicholas Pelham repelled a party of 1,500 French invaders in 1545, two days after they had sunk the Mary Rose at Southsea. [...]

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