Cosham
Cosham is a northern suburb of Portsmouth lying within the city boundary but off Portsea Island, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.
Cosham is a northern suburb of Portsmouth lying within the city boundary but off Portsea Island, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 along with Drayton and Wymering (mainland) and Bocheland (Buckland), Frodington (Fratton) and Copenore (Copnor) on the island.
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Worth seeing in and around Cosham
9 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.
- 01Portchester Castle
Portchester Castle is a medieval fortress that was developed within the walls of the Roman Saxon Shore fort of Portus Adurni at Portchester, to the east of Fareham in Hampshire. The keep was probably built in the late 11th century as a baronial castle, before Portchester came under royal control in 1154.
3.5 km · medieval castle in Portchester, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Portus Adurni
Portus Adurni was a Roman fort in the Roman province of Britannia situated at the north end of Portsmouth Harbour. It was part of the Saxon Shore, and is the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps.
3.5 km · Roman fort · Wikipedia - 03UTC Portsmouth
UTC Portsmouth is a university technical college which opened in September 2017 in Portsmouth, England. UTC Portsmouth specialises in teaching STEM subjects with a particular focus on Mechanical and Electrical Engineering disciplines.
1.3 km · college in Portsmouth, UK · Wikipedia - 04Fort Widley
Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. It was designed, along with the other Palmerston Forts atop Portsdown, to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear.
1.4 km · fort in Portsmouth, UK · Wikipedia - 05Portsdown Hill
Portsdown Hill is a long chalk ridge in Hampshire, England. The highest point of the hill lies within Fort Southwick at 131 m above sea level.
3.6 km · hill in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Wymering Manor
Wymering Manor is a Grade II* listed building, which is the oldest in the city of Portsmouth, England, and was the manor house of Wymering, a settlement mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is first recorded in 1042, when it was owned by King Edward the Confessor.
900 m · house in Wymering, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Alexandra Park
Alexandra Park, Portsmouth, was opened in 1907 and was a place of recreation for the people of Portsea Island. It provided lawns, flowers beds, paths and seats; it was an area to escape the toils of inner city life in the early twentieth century.
2.1 km · 1907 park serving Portsea Island in Portsmouth, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Keydell House
Keydell House was situated in 45 acres of land near Lovedean Corner, in the village of Horndean, part of the ecclesiastical parish of Catherington Hampshire from Georgian times until its demolition to make way for houses in 1968.
3.9 km · country house in Bedhampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09South Downs College
HSDC is a Further education college located in Waterlooville, Hampshire, England. The college was formed on 1 August 2017 following a merger of South Downs College and Havant Sixth Form College.
3.8 km · further education college in Waterlooville, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cosham
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 70 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km · London Luton (LTN), 125 km
- Stations
- Cosham railway station, 100 m · Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire, 1.9 km · Hilsea railway station, 1.7 km · Portsmouth International Port, 3.8 km · Paulsgrove Halt railway station, 2.1 km
- London → Cosham98 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–14
- Luton, Luton → Cosham123 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £14–18
- Bristol → Cosham127 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–22
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cosham
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 Cosham. 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 Cosham
- Portchestertown in Hampshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Widleyvillage in Hampshire, England, UK2 km
- Farlingtonsuburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Wymeringsuburb of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England, UK700 m
- Purbrookvillage in Hampshire, England3.3 km
- Paulsgrovesuburb in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England2.1 km