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Rowner

Rowner is a small settlement which forms part of the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England.

Rowner
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The place

Rowner is a small settlement which forms part of the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rowner

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
    Explosion 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
  2. 02
    Quay Street Viaduct

    Quay Street Viaduct is a railway bridge in Fareham, Hampshire, on the south coast of England. Built in 1848 by Joseph Locke, it is a Grade II listed building.

    3.1 km · railway viaduct in Fareham, Hampshire, PO16 · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fort Brockhurst

    Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, and a scheduled monument. It is now an English Heritage property.

    1.6 km · historic fort in Gosport, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wallington Viaduct

    Cams Hill Viaduct is a railway bridge over the River Wallington in Fareham, Hampshire, on the south coast of England. Built in 1848 by Joseph Locke, it is a Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · railway viaduct in Fareham, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of the Sacred Heart

    The Church of the Sacred Heart is the Roman Catholic parish church of the town of Fareham in Hampshire, southern England. It opened in 1878 on a centrally located site, replacing a converted shed which had been used for worship since 1873.

    3.2 km · church in Fareham, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cams Hall

    Cams Hall at Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom, is a Palladian mansion set in parkland overlooking Portsmouth Harbour. The land at Cams Hall was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and a manor house was recorded here as far back as the 13th century.

    3 km · country house in Fareham, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fort Elson

    Fort Elson was one of the early Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, the northernmost polygonal land fort in the defence line to the west of Gosport. It was located on land immediately to the south of Elson Creek, to which it was connected by a sluice.

    1.8 km · Palmerston fort in Gosport, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fort Fareham

    Fort Fareham is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Fareham, England. After the Gosport Advanced Line of Fort Brockhurst, Fort Elson, Fort Rowner, Fort Grange and Fort Gomer had been approved by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom a decision was made to build an outer line of three more forts two miles in advance of the Gosport Advanced Line.

    2.3 km · fort in Fareham, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Fort 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.

    2.1 km · Palmerston Fort in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hovercraft 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.

    2.9 km · maritime museum in Hampshire, United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Rowner

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 78 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 88 km · Bristol (BRS), 124 km
Stations
Fareham, 3.1 km · Fareham railway station, 3.6 km · Portsmouth Harbour, 3.7 km
  • London → Rowner
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £12–16
  • Bristol → Rowner
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–22
  • Luton, Luton → Rowner
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Rowner

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 Rowner. 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

    17 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    248 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    501 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    591 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    627 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rowner

  • Lee-on-the-Solentseaside district within the Borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England2.9 km
  • Wallingtonvillage in the borough of Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Stubbingtonvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Croftonvillage in Hampshire, UK1.4 km
  • Bridgemaryvillage in Hampshire, England, UK500 m
  • Fareham Commonvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.4 km