South East England
Hampshire
Gosport District

Gosport

Gosport is a town in , a short water ride away from . Although not a traditional destination, it does have some attractions if you are interested in maritime history.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include HMS Victory and HMS Warrior.

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is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.

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is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.

Railway station
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the city of , in , . It is situated in , between the Gunwharf Quays shopping centre and the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portsmouth and Southsea.

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is a large city in the county of , on the of . plays a major role in British history, especially naval history.

Suburb
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is a seaside resort and a geographic area of , in the ceremonial county of , England. is located 1.8 miles to the south of Portsmouth's inner city-centre.

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is a village in the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of , England. It stretches east–west from , Haslar to Browndown Battery, and is centred 0.5 miles east of the shore of and near the head of a creek which extends a mile westward from Harbour.

Gosport

Latitude
50.7952° or 50° 47′ 43″ north
Longitude
-1.1211° or 1° 7′ 16″ west
Population
70,800
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GOS
Open location code
9C2WQVWH+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245488301
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648272
Wiki­data ID
Q936263
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Gosport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gosport”
  • Arabic: “جوسبورت”
  • Arabic: “غوسبورت”
  • Armenian: “Գոսպորտ”
  • Asturian: “Gosport”
  • Basque: “Gosport”
  • Bengali: “গোজপোর্ট”
  • Catalan: “Gosport”
  • Cebuano: “Gosport”
  • Chinese: “Gosport”
  • Chinese: “戈斯波特”
  • Czech: “Gosport”
  • Dutch: “Gosport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوسبورت”
  • Esperanto: “Gosport”
  • Estonian: “Gosport”
  • French: “Gosport”
  • German: “Gosport”
  • Gujarati: “ગોસપોર્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “גוספורט”
  • Hungarian: “Gosport”
  • Irish: “Gosport”
  • Italian: “Gosport”
  • Japanese: “ゴスポート”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಸ್ಪೋರ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “고스포트”
  • Ladin: “Gosport”
  • Latin: “Gosport”
  • Latvian: “Gosporta”
  • Lithuanian: “Gosportas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gosport (Hampshire)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gosport”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gosport”
  • Norwegian: “Gosport”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gosport”
  • Persian: “گاسپورت”
  • Polish: “Gosport”
  • Portuguese: “Gosport”
  • Romanian: “Gosport”
  • Russian: “Госпорт”
  • Scots: “Gosport”
  • Serbian: “Gosport”
  • Serbian: “Госпорт”
  • Slovak: “Gosport”
  • Slovenian: “Gosport”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قاسپورت”
  • Spanish: “Gosport”
  • Swedish: “Gosport”
  • Tamil: “கோஸ்பார்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Госпорт”
  • Telugu: “గాస్పోర్ట్”
  • Ukrainian: “Госпорт”
  • Urdu: “گاسپورٹ”
  • Welsh: “Gosport”
  • “Gosport”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Gosport”. Photo: Julian Colander, CC BY-SA 4.0.