Portsmouth Harbour — Local services in Portsmouth

Whatever the weather or season this vast natural harbour steeped in history is well worth a boat ride in order to see what it has to offer. Or if you are on a ferry to France or just crossing on the Gosport ferry you can get a flavour of this Site of special scientific interest as part of your trip through the seaward end of the harbour and its narrow harbour mouth onto the Solent. Vast mudbanks feed seasonal wading birds and the islands on the Gosport shoreside have featured on 'Digging for Britain' as a burial site from the Napoleonic times. With the home of the Royal Navy in the modern Naval base, Historic dockyard home to HMS Victory, Mary Rose and Warrior as well as Submarine Alliance naval veterans will have plenty to stir their memories and share with...

Great place to visit.Discover the history of Portsmouth and Walk the Nelson trail.There's also a working fishing port that has been here for many years.There's also the dockyard to visit the historic ships,old portsmouth and what is now Gunwharf,previously home to the royal corp of transport and their landing craft,and a minesweeper flotilla as well as home to the clearance divers and the torpedo and anti submarine training school.A long time ago,or it feels that way.Across from the round tower was HMS Dolphin,home to the p&o diesel electric submarines.Times have changed but the harbour has a lot of history and a great...

Great panoramic sea views. The taxi service in place of the railway (whilst going through maintenance was a brilliant idea. Waiting area inside is clean, well sign posted, has accessible toilets and a lovely cafe counter where a adequate range of foods are sold. The lady I met behind the counter, was super friendly, helpful and chatty. I would make one suggestions to those in charge, that is to install more locations for charging phones. With the ferry’s accepting ticketless boarding, being able to charge your phone is one less headache...