Portswood
Portswood is a suburb and electoral ward of Southampton, England. The suburb lies to the north-north-east of the city centre and is bounded by Freemantle, Highfield, Swaythling, St.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 14,800 residents
- Description: suburb of Southampton, England
- Also known as: “Portswood, Hampshire”
- Postal code: SO17
Places of Interest
Highlights include Highfield Church and St Denys railway station.
Highfield Church
Church
Photo: AlanFord, Public domain.
Highfield Church is a parish church in the Highfield district of Southampton, England. It is an Anglican Church in the Diocese of Winchester.
St Denys railway station
Railway stop
Photo: AlanFord, Public domain.
St Denys railway station serves the St Denys and Portswood suburbs of Southampton in Hampshire, England. It is 77 miles 10 chains down the line from London Waterloo.
Avenue Campus
University
Photo: FlickScully, CC BY 3.0.
Avenue Campus is a campus of the University of Southampton and is located in Southampton, England. It currently houses most of the university's Faculty of Humanities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Highfield and St Denys.
Highfield
Suburb
Highfield is a suburb of Southampton, England. The suburb is situated to the north of the city centre, and is bounded by Southampton Common, Bassett, Swaythling and Portswood.
St Denys
Suburb
Photo: Dave Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Denys is a partially riverside district of Southampton, England, centred 1.5 miles north north-east of the city centre facing variously Bitterne Park and quay across the River Itchen estuary.
Bitterne Manor
Suburb
Photo: GaryReggae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bitterne Manor is a suburb of Southampton surrounding the manor house of the same name. It is located on the eastern bank of the River Itchen, across Cobden Bridge from St Denys.
Portswood
- Category: locality
- Location: Southampton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.92672° or 50° 55′ 36″ northLongitude
-1.39144° or 1° 23′ 29″ westPopulation
14,800Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C2WWJG5+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 544741OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
11551048Wikidata ID
Q7232527
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Ukrainian—“Portswood” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Portswood”
- Polish: “Portswood”
- Swedish: “Portswood”
- Ukrainian: “Портсвуд”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Portswood”. Photo: Ronald Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.