Waterlooville
Waterlooville is a town in the Borough of Havant in Hampshire, England, about 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Portsmouth.
Waterlooville is a town in the Borough of Havant in Hampshire, England, about 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Portsmouth. It is the largest town in the borough. The Waterlooville built-up area had a population of 34,775 in the 2021 census. It is surrounded by Purbrook, Blendworth, Cowplain, Lovedean, Clanfield, Catherington, Crookhorn, Denmead, Hambledon, Horndean and Widley. It forms part of the South Hampshire conurbation. The town formed around the old A3 London to Portsmouth road.
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Worth seeing in and around Waterlooville
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.
- 01Warblington Castle
Warblington Castle or Warblington manor was a moated manor near Langstone in Havant parish, Hampshire. Most of the castle was destroyed during the English Civil War, leaving only a single gate tower, part of a wall, and a gateway.
5.9 km · castle in Hampshire, UK · Wikipedia - 02Southwick 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.
5.1 km · 19th-century manor house · Wikipedia - 03Fort 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 - 04Church 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.
5.8 km · Grade I listed church in Southwick and Widley, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Wymering 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.
5.1 km · house in Wymering, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Keydell 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.
3.3 km · country house in Bedhampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07South 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.
2.1 km · further education college in Waterlooville, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 08The Elms
The Elms is an historic house in Old Bedhampton, near Havant, Hampshire in England. It is a Grade II* listed building The house was built in the 17th century and improved in the Gothic Revival style during the 18th.
3.5 km · historic house in Old Bedhampton, near Havant, Hampshire in England · Wikipedia - 09St Albans Church
St Alban's Church is a Church of England parish church situated in West Leigh, Hampshire, England.
4.3 km · church building in West Leigh, Hampshire · Wikipedia - 10Waterlooville Baptist Church
Waterlooville Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waterlooville and surrounding suburban areas in the borough of Havant in Hampshire, southeast England. Built in 1966 to replace a Victorian chapel on a different site, the church is affiliated with the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
600 m · church in Hampshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Waterlooville
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 77 km · London Luton (LTN), 120 km
- Stations
- Cosham railway station, 5 km · Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire, 5.9 km · Bedhampton railway station, 3.7 km · Havant railway station, 4.4 km · Warblington railway station, 5.3 km
- London → Waterlooville94 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Waterlooville119 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–18
- Bristol → Waterlooville127 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £16–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Waterlooville
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 Waterlooville. 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 Waterlooville
- Havanttown in Hampshire, England, UK4.8 km
- Horndeanvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom4.4 km
- Rowlands Castlevillage in Hampshire, England5.1 km
- Denmeadvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Southwickvillage in Hampshire, England, UK5.7 km
- Coshamsuburb of Portsmouth, England4.9 km