Portchester
Portchester is a village in the borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England.
Portchester is a village in the borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Portsmouth and around 18 miles east of Southampton on the A27 road. Its population according to the 2011 United Kingdom census was 17,789.
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Worth seeing in and around Portchester
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.
- 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.
600 m · 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.
600 m · Roman fort · Wikipedia - 03Explosion 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.
3.9 km · museum in Gosport, Hampshire, UK · Wikipedia - 04Southwick 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.
3.9 km · 19th-century manor house · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Southwick and Widley, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06UTC 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.
3.7 km · college in Portsmouth, UK · Wikipedia - 07Fort 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.
3.9 km · fort in Portsmouth, UK · Wikipedia - 08Portsdown 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.
1.9 km · hill in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Wymering 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.
3 km · house in Wymering, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Fort Brockhurst
Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, and a scheduled monument. It is now an English Heritage property.
3.9 km · historic fort in Gosport, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Portchester
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 74 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 84 km · London Luton (LTN), 126 km
- Stations
- Portsmouth Harbour, 2.1 km · Cosham railway station, 3.7 km · Portchester railway station, 800 m · Portsmouth International Port, 3.9 km · Paulsgrove Halt railway station, 1.9 km
- London → Portchester101 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £11–15
- Luton, Luton → Portchester125 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
- Bristol → Portchester123 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22
- 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 Portchester
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 Portchester. 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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Next door to Portchester
- Southwickvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Coshamsuburb of Portsmouth, England3.8 km
- Wallingtonvillage in the borough of Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Southwick and Widleycivil parish in Winchester, Hampshire, England3.5 km
- Wymeringsuburb of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Paulsgrovesuburb in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England2.1 km