PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE
The UK's Only Island City
Portsmouth Shopping
Portsmouth and Southsea have some great places for shopping that include all of the big name stores and outlets.
These include;
- Albert Road
- Cascades
- Commercial Road
- Gunwharf Quays
- Ocean Retail Park - Burrfields Road
- Palmerston Road
- Port Solent
Each of these areas are contrastingly different, whatever you are shopping for you will find it here. Go to Portsmouth Shopping for more information.
Portsmouth Hotels
Portsmouth and Southsea has a wide range of hotels to suit all tastes and budgets.
These range from national hotel brands to unique cosy boutique hotels.
The hotels listings have been divided into three distinct areas.
Each hotel in the listing has a map page and most of the hotels can be booked online, use the book now button in the listing.
For more about PORTSMOUTH HOTELS follow this link.
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Portsmouth History
Portsmouth also known as Pompey, is home to three hugely important historic ships and the birthplace of Charles Dickens.
- HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar. Built 1765.
- HMS Warrior the first iron hulled warship. Built 1860.
- The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's warship that sank in the Solent off of Southsea Castle in 1545.
These are all housed at the Historic Dockyard one of the top ten visitor attractions in the UK, home also to the worlds first dry dock.
Read more - Portsmouth Attractions
More Portsmouth History here.
Portsmouth Restaurants
Portsmouth has a really wide variety of quality restaurants to choose from.
This range includes Bangladeshi, Chinese, Greek, Moroccan, Turkish, Thai, Indian, Nepalese, Spanish, South American, Italian and traditional English restaurants and pubs.
The restaurant listings on this site have been divided into six geographic areas;
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Portsmouth - Did you know?
- The City is the birthplace of Charles Dickens, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Peter Sellers, read more about famous Portsmouth residents.
- Portsmouth is home to the oldest Dry Dock in the world comissioned by King henry VII in 1495 at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. Portsmouth Dockyard is also home to the oldest comissioned warship in the world, HMS Victory.
- Portsmouth Ferry Port is one of the busiest in the UK carrying approximately 2.2 million people per year.
- Portsmouth is one of the UK's largest fruit handling ports, handling fruit from Central and South America, Morocco, South Africa, New Zealand and the eastern Mediterranean. Bananas imported to the UK by Dole, Fyffes, Geest and other Jamaican Producers are landed at Portsmouth, this means that 65% of bananas eaten in Britain now pass through the Port!
- Portsmouth has been used in a number of films and television programmes such as Tomorrow Never Dies (James Bond), Oscar and Lucinda, Making Waves, Silent Witness, Mr Bean and Eastenders. The local area was used extensively in the filming of Tommy, The Who's Rock Opera.
- Portsmouth is home to the Royal Navy, the University of Portsmouth and to Portsmouth Football Club founded in 1898.
