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Paulsgrove

Paulsgrove is an area of northern Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

Paulsgrove
Paulsgrove · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Paulsgrove is an area of northern Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Initially a small independent hamlet for many centuries, it was admitted to the city limits in 1920 and grew rapidly after the end of the Second World War.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Paulsgrove

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.

  1. 01
    Portchester 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.

    2 km · medieval castle in Portchester, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Portus 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.

    2 km · Roman fort · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Southwick House

    Southwick House is a Grade II listed 19th-century manor house of the Southwick Estate in Hampshire, England, about 5 miles north of Portsmouth. It is home to the Defence School of Policing and Guarding and related military police capabilities.

    2.9 km · 19th-century manor house · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Portsdown 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.

    1.6 km · hill in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wymering 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.

    1.1 km · house in Wymering, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St James Without the Priory Gate

    St James Church, Southwick is the Church of England parish church of Southwick, Hampshire, England. The parish is part of the Diocese of Portsmouth.

    3 km · Grade I listed church in Southwick and Widley, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    UTC 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.

    2.5 km · college in Portsmouth, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fort 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.

    1.8 km · fort in Portsmouth, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Nelson Monument

    The Nelson Monument, 120 feet tall on a granite base, stands on Portsdown Hill about 2 miles north of Portsmouth Harbour on the south coast of England. It was the eventual outcome of a movement started during Horatio Nelson's lifetime to "perpetuate the glorious victories of the British Navy".

    3.1 km · monument on Portsdown Hill in Boarhunt, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Fort Nelson

    Fort Nelson, in the civil parish of Boarhunt in the English county of Hampshire, is one of five defensive forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill in the 1860s, overlooking the important naval base of Portsmouth and is a Grade I Listed Building. The current tenant is the Royal Armouries, housing the artillery of the national collection of arms and armour.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed military museum in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Paulsgrove

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 72 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km · London Luton (LTN), 125 km
Stations
Portsmouth Harbour, 3.5 km · Portchester railway station, 2.2 km · Cosham railway station, 2 km · Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire, 3.8 km · Hilsea railway station, 3.4 km
  • London → Paulsgrove
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Paulsgrove
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
  • Bristol → Paulsgrove
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–22
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Paulsgrove

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 Paulsgrove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    23 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    253 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    495 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    590 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    627 km

If you know how people move in Paulsgrove – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Paulsgrove

  • Portchestertown in Hampshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Southwickvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Coshamsuburb of Portsmouth, England2.1 km
  • Widleyvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Southwick and Widleycivil parish in Winchester, Hampshire, England2.8 km
  • Wymeringsuburb of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England, UK1.3 km