John Pounds Centre

John Pounds Centre is a building in Southsea, Portsmouth, England. John Pounds Centre is situated nearby to the community center John Pounds Corner, as well as near the university building Milldam Barracks.

Type: Building
Address: Portsmouth, PO1 3HN
Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include HMS Victory and HMS Warrior.

HMS Victory

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 248 years of service as of 2026, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. HMS Victory is situated 2,300 feet northwest of John Pounds Centre.

HMS Warrior

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

HMS Warrior 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. HMS Warrior is situated 2,100 feet west of John Pounds Centre.

Groundlings Theatre

Theater building

Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Groundlings Theatre is a theater building, which is situated 730 feet southwest of John Pounds Centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Southsea and Gosport.

Southsea

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

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

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.

Buckland

Suburb

Buckland is a residential area in the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire.

John Pounds Centre

Location: Southsea, Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.79927° or 50° 47′ 57″ north

Longitude

-1.1002° or 1° 6′ 1″ west

Open location code

9C2WQVXX+PW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 32394475

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap attribute

wheelchair=yes

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