Alverstoke
Alverstoke is a village in the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England.
Alverstoke is a village in the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England. It stretches east–west from Fort Blockhouse, Haslar to Browndown Battery, and is centred 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the shore of Stokes Bay and near the head of a creek which extends a mile westward from Portsmouth Harbour.
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Worth seeing in and around Alverstoke
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Spinnaker Tower
The Spinnaker Tower is a 170-metre landmark observation tower in Portsmouth, England. It is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Portsmouth Harbour, which was supported by a National Lottery grant.
3.4 km · sightseeing tower in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Portsmouth Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral church in the centre of Old Portsmouth in Portsmouth, England. Since 1935 the historic church has been the cathedral of the Diocese of Portsmouth and the seat of the Bishop of Portsmouth.
3.4 km · cathedral · Wikipedia - 03Mary Rose Ship Hall and Museum
The Mary Rose Museum is a historical museum located at Historic Dockyards in Portsmouth in the United Kingdom run by the Mary Rose Trust.
3.8 km · maritime museum in Portsmouth, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Royal Naval Museums, Portsmouth
The Royal Naval Museums, Portsmouth, formerly known as the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, is a museum of the history of the Royal Navy located in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard section of HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The museum is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Defence.
3.6 km · museum in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Royal Navy Submarine Museum
The Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport is a maritime museum tracing the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day, and particularly the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from the navy's first submarine, Holland 1, to the nuclear-powered Vanguard-class submarines. The museum is located close to the former shore establishment HMS Dolphin, the home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1904 until 1999.
2.3 km · Maritime museum in Gosport, England · Wikipedia - 06Portsmouth Block Mills
The Portsmouth Block Mills form part of the Portsmouth Dockyard at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and were built during the Napoleonic Wars to supply the British Royal Navy with pulley blocks. They started the age of mass-production using all-metal machine tools, and are regarded as one of the seminal buildings of the British Industrial Revolution.
3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
The Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower is situated in the former Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Priddy's Hard, in Gosport, Hampshire, England. It now forms part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
3.5 km · museum in Gosport, Hampshire, UK · Wikipedia - 08Fort Monckton
Fort Monckton is a historic military fort on the south-east shoreline of the Gosport peninsula, Hampshire. Built on the ruins of Haselworth Castle to protect Portsmouth Harbour at the start of the American War of Independence, it was rebuilt in the 1880s as a Palmerston fort.
1.1 km · fort in Gosport, UK · Wikipedia - 09Spitbank Fort
Spitbank Fort or Spitsand Fort or Spit Sand Fort or simply Spit Fort is a sea fort built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission. The fort is one of four built as part of the Palmerston Forts constructions.
3.7 km · sea fort located in the Solent, near Portsmouth, England · Wikipedia - 10Portsmouth Garrison church
Domus Dei was an almshouse and hospice at Old Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It is now also known as the Royal Garrison Church and is an English Heritage property and a Grade II listed building.
3.4 km · church in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alverstoke
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 91 km · Bristol (BRS), 128 km
- Stations
- Portsmouth Harbour railway station, 3.6 km · The Hard Interchange, 3.6 km · Gosport bus station, 2.7 km
- London → Alverstoke10 km · quickest by road, 47 min · £1–1.5
- Bristol → Alverstoke4 km · quickest by road, 22 min · £0.5–1
- Luton, Luton → Alverstoke54 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Alverstoke
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alverstoke. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAlight at for the Historic Dockyard, Gunwharf Quays, the Spinnaker Tower and ferries to the Isle of Wight.
- Get inThere are ferry services from four ports in Normandy and Brittany.
- Get inCross Channel ferry services operate out of the Portsmouth International Port located at the end of the M275 motorway Caen Brittany Ferries, up to 3 a day, 5 hr 45 min Cherbourg Condor Ferries, 1 Sunday service, 5 hr Brittany Ferries, 1 a day, 3-hr fast service Le Havre Brittany Ferries 1 a day, 8 hr 15 min overnight Saint-Malo Brittany Ferries, up to 2 a day, 9 hr overnight or in the daytime There are services from two ports in northern Spain (the Basque Country and Cantabria).
- Get inBilbao Brittany Ferries, 'cruise style' 2 a week (W: 24 hr, and Su: 32 hr), 'économie' 1 a week (Tu: 28 hr).
- Get inSantander Brittany Ferries, 3 a week (Tu F Su: 24 hr).
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Next door to Alverstoke
- Gosporttown in Hampshire, England2.5 km
- Hardwaysettlement in Hampshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Portsmouth Historic Dockyardarea of HM naval Base Portsmouth3.7 km
- Priddy's Hardarea of Gosport, in Hampshire, England3.4 km