Stokes Bay
Stokes Bay SZ 590 980) is an area of the Solent that lies just south of Gosport, between Portsmouth and Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. There is a shingle beach with views of Ryde and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight to the south and Fawley to the south west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roy Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Diving Museum and Fort Gomer.
Fort Gomer
Fort
Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Gomer was one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, the southernmost and first-built Polygonal fort in the defence line to the west of Gosport.
Browndown Battery
Military installation
Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Browndown Battery, also referred to erroneously in some sources as Browndown Fort, is a former military coastal defence fortification and base on the Southern shoreline of England in the county of Hampshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alverstoke and Gosport.
Alverstoke
Suburb
Photo: Margaret Auerstedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alverstoke is a village in the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England. It stretches east–west from Fort Blockhouse, Haslar to Browndown Battery, and is centred 0.5 miles east of the shore of Stokes Bay and near the head of a creek which extends a mile westward from Portsmouth Harbour.
Gosport
Photo: Julian Colander, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gosport is a town in Hampshire, a short water ride away from Portsmouth. Although not a traditional destination, it does have some attractions if you are interested in maritime history.
Rowner
Suburb
Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rowner is a small settlement which forms part of the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England. Rowner is situated 2 miles north of Stokes Bay.
Stokes Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Hampshire, United Kingdom
- Category: body of water
- Location: Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Stokes Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Stokes Bay (luuk sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Stokes Bay”
- Chinese: “司托克斯灣”
- Chinese: “斯托克斯灣”
- French: “Stokes Bay”
- Swedish: “Stokes Bay (vik i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Stokes Bay”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Privett and Clayhall.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Old Lodge Hotel and Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
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