Portchester
Portchester is a village in the borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England. It is 4 miles northwest of Portsmouth and around 18 miles east of Southampton on the A27 road. Its population according to the 2011 United Kingdom census was 17,789.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 17,800 residents
- Description: town in Hampshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Porchester” and “Portchester, Hampshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portchester railway station and Portchester Castle.
Portchester railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bashereyre, Public domain.
Portchester railway station serves the village of Portchester in Hampshire, England, 87 miles 35 chains from London Waterloo. It was first opened by the LSWR in 1848 on their line from Fareham to Portsmouth.
Portchester Castle
Photo: Matthew Folley, CC BY 2.0.
Portchester Castle is a medieval fortress that was developed within the walls of the Roman Saxon Shore fort of Portus Adurni at Portchester, to the east of Fareham in Hampshire.
Portchester Community School
School
Portchester Community School is a mixed comprehensive community school for 11- to 16-year-olds in Portchester, England. As of January 2015, the date of the last Ofsted inspection, the school has been rated overall as 'good'.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southwick and Fort Elson.
Southwick
Village
Photo: Bashereyre, Public domain.
Southwick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Southwick and Widley, in the Winchester district, in Hampshire, England. 1 mile north of the Portsmouth boundary measured from Portsea Island. Southwick is situated 2 miles north of Portchester.
Fort Elson
Locality
Photo: David Alan Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Elson was one of the early Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, the northernmost polygonal land fort in the defence line to the west of Gosport. Fort Elson is situated 2 miles southwest of Portchester.
Wallington
Neighborhood
Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wallington is a village in Hampshire, part of the borough of Fareham. It is situated between Portsmouth and Southampton near where the River Wallington enters Portsmouth Harbour. Wallington is situated 2 miles west of Portchester.
Portchester
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Borough of Fareham, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.84645° or 50° 50′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.12473° or 1° 7′ 29″ westPopulation
17,800Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PRCOpen location code
9C2WRVWG+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 6600885415OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Portchester” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Փորթչեստեր”
- Asturian: “Portchester”
- Basque: “Portchester”
- Bulgarian: “Портчестър”
- Catalan: “Portchester”
- Chinese: “波特切斯特”
- Czech: “Portchester”
- Dutch: “Portchester”
- French: “Portchester”
- German: “Portchester”
- Greek: “Πόρτσεστερ”
- Hebrew: “פורטצ’סטר”
- Irish: “Portchester”
- Italian: “Portchester”
- Japanese: “ポーチェスター”
- Japanese: “ポートチェスター”
- Ladin: “Portchester”
- Latin: “Portchester”
- Narom: “Portchêtre”
- Ossetian: “Портчестер”
- Persian: “پورتچستر”
- Polish: “Portchester”
- Russian: “Портчестер”
- Scots: “Portchester”
- Slovak: “Portchester”
- Slovenian: “Portchester”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورتچستر”
- Spanish: “Portchester”
- Swedish: “Portchester”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Portchester”. Photo: Barry Skeates, CC BY 2.0.