Marchwood Power Station

Marchwood Power Station is an 898.1 MW gas-fired power station in Marchwood, near Southampton, England. It is situated beside estuary of the River Test where it meets Southampton Water, opposite the Port of Southampton.

Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Marchwood ERF and SS Shieldhall.

Marchwood ERF

Power station

Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Marchwood ERF is a waste incineration plant in Marchwood, near Southampton, England. It is situated beside the estuary of the River Test where it meets Southampton Water, opposite the Port of Southampton. Marchwood ERF is situated 720 feet north of Marchwood Power Station.

SS Shieldhall

Ship

Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 3.0.

SS Shieldhall is a preserved steamship that operates from Southampton. She is the largest operational historic steamship in Europe and one of the last reciprocating steam engined ships built, using technology that dated back to the last quarter of the 19th century and which was obsolete at the time of her construction. SS Shieldhall is situated 3,800 feet north of Marchwood Power Station.

Southampton Central railway station

Railway station

Photo: Arriva436, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Southampton Central is a main line railway station serving the city of Southampton, in Hampshire, England. It lies on the South West Main Line, the Wessex Main Line and the West Coastway Line. Southampton Central railway station is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Marchwood Power Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freemantle and Regents Park.

Freemantle

Suburb

Photo: Dave Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Freemantle is a suburb and electoral ward in Southampton, England. There are similarly named places in Hampshire: notably Henry II's hunting lodge in Kingsclere; an area near Hannington; and Freemantle Common in Bitterne.

Regents Park

Suburb

Photo: Robintw147, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Regents Park is a suburb of Southampton in England. A large house and grounds, after which the area is named, formerly occupied the land with the current Regents Park Road following the route of the Carriage Drive.

Southampton

Photo: Ronald Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Southampton is the largest city in Hampshire, on the south coast of England. A busy cruise ship and container port, Southampton is the European end of the last Transatlantic ocean liner route, the Queen Mary II to New York, and in 1912 was the point of departure for the Titanic.

Marchwood Power Station

Type: Power station
Description: gas-fired power station near Southampton, England
Categories: natural gas-fired power station and industry
Location: Marchwood, New Forest, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.89789° or 50° 53′ 52″ north

Longitude

-1.43781° or 1° 26′ 16″ west

Operator

SSE Thermal

Open location code

9C2WVHX6+5V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 204595889

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

Wikidata ID

Q18161324

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From German to Norwegian Bokmål—“Marchwood Power Station” goes by many names.

German: “Kraftwerk Marchwood”
German: “Marchwood Power Station”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Marchwood gasskraftverk”
Norwegian: “Marchwood gasskraftverk”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include The Fifteen Acres and The Park.

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