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Often misspelt "Princep Ghat", the memorial ghat is named after James Prinsep, a 19th century East India Company official best known as a historical scholar. It gives an excellent view of the Hooghly River and Vidyasagar Setu.
Princep Ghat is a ghat built in 1841 during the Company Raj, along the Kolkata bank of the Hooghly River in India. The Palladian porch in the memory of the eminent Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary James Prinsep was designed by W. Fitzgerald and constructed in 1843.
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বিদ্যাসাগর সেতু Bidyāsāgor Setu, Second Hooghly Bridge
With a total length of 823 m (2,700 ft), Vidyasagar Setu is the longest cable-stayed bridge in India and one of the longest in Asia. It was built 3.7 km south/downstream of Howrah Bridge. The bridge was commissioned in 1992 by the Hooghly River Bridge Commission (HRBC).
Ellenborough's Folly, The Pepperpot
An octagonal cenotaph crowned with a bronze dome cast from guns captured from the Scindia forces of Gwalior. It was erected in 1847 by Governor-General Lord Ellenborough as a memorial to the officers and men who fell during the Gwalior War of 1843.
A memorial dedicated to the memory of the 896 Indian sailors (lascars) who died serving on ships of the Royal Navy and British Merchant Service during World War I.
Fort William Stadium
Fort William Church
The sole church of Vijay Durg, and once a chaplaincy centre to the British in the city. Resembling the chapel of Cambridge's Trinity Hall, the white Gothic-style church was established in 1822. It contains the Command Library with a collection of over 35,000 books.
formerly Kitchener's House
A four-storey mixed Gothic-Georgian building that was built in 1771 and named after one of the commanders-in-chief of Fort William. The building was later renamed after S.H.F.J. Manekshaw, Indian Army's first field marshal. Governor-General Lord Wellesley spent 14 years here. The building is used as the officers' mess.