Lee-on-the-Solent
Lee-on-the-Solent, often referred to as Lee-on-Solent, is a seaside district of the borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England, about five miles (8 km) west of Portsmouth.
Lee-on-the-Solent, often referred to as Lee-on-Solent, is a seaside district of the borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England, about five miles (8 km) west of Portsmouth. The area is located on the coast of the Solent. It is primarily a residential area, with an upsurge of mostly local visitors in summer, but was also the former home to the Royal Naval Air Station HMS Daedalus.
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Worth seeing in and around Lee-on-the-Solent
7 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.
- 01Fort Brockhurst
Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, and a scheduled monument. It is now an English Heritage property.
3.5 km · historic fort in Gosport, England · Wikipedia - 02Fort Rowner
Fort Rowner is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England. Built circa 1858 as part of the outer defence line for Gosport along with Fort Brockhurst and Fort Elson to the North East and Fort Grange and Fort Gomer to the South West.
3 km · Palmerston Fort in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hovercraft Museum
The Hovercraft Museum, in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England is a museum run by a registered charity dedicated to hovercraft. The museum has a collection of over 60 hovercraft of various designs.
800 m · maritime museum in Hampshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Browndown Battery
Browndown Battery, also referred to erroneously in some sources as Browndown Fort, is a former military coastal defence fortification and base on the Southern shoreline of England in the county of Hampshire. First erected in the mid-1840s, the battery was continuously modified until disarmed in 1905/6.
2.6 km · grade II listed building in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Fort Grange
Fort Grange is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England. After Gomer and Elson forts had been approved in 1852, further consideration led to a decision to fill the gap between them by three more forts, and Grange is the most southerly of the three.
2.8 km · fort in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Little Woodham
Little Woodham, also known as "The Living History Village of Little Woodham" or "The Seventeenth Century Village", is a living museum dedicated to recreating life in a rural village in the mid-17th century. It is situated in ancient woodland in Rowner, on the Gosport peninsula, Hampshire.
1.9 km · living museum in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 07Browndown
Browndown is a 66.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gosport in Hampshire. This is a shingle beach owned by the Ministry of Defence, which has areas of heather, grass heath and gorse.
2.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Royal Navy Museums: Explosion!
Museum of Naval Firepower), Heritage Way, Priddy's Hard, PO12 4LE.
- 02Royal Navy Submarine Museum
Haslar Jetty Rd, PO12 2AS (10 min walk from the ferry).
- 03Fort Brockhurst
A Palmerston Fort built between 1858 and 1862.
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Where to eat
Gosport Cafe, 195 Forton Rd, PO12 3HB,. The Bakers Basket, 157 Rowner Ln, PO13 9SP. Poppins, 99 High St, PO12 1DS,.
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Getting to Lee-on-the-Solent
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 90 km · Bristol (BRS), 124 km
- London → Lee-on-the-Solent109 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £12–16
- Bristol → Lee-on-the-Solent121 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–22
- Luton, Luton → Lee-on-the-Solent132 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lee-on-the-Solent
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 Lee-on-the-Solent. 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).
From Wikivoyage: Portsmouth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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