The back story
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Town guide
Gosport: the back story
The Navy’s other shore: a victualling yard that brewed beer and baked biscuit, magazines at Priddy’s Hard, a ring of Victorian forts and the home of the submarine service’s museum.
Beyond Brighton · four minutes from Portsmouth by ferry
Gosport: Our Favourites
Gosport, four minutes across the harbour from Portsmouth by ferry: the Submarine Museum and HMS Alliance, Explosion at Priddy’s Hard, Royal Clarence Yard, Fort Brockhurst, the Diving Museum and Haslar Marina.
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Cafés and tea rooms
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At the marina
The Creek
Home-cooked food at Haslar Marina, a short walk from the Gosport Ferry.
Haslar Marina, Gosport PO12 1NUExplore View on map
What to see and do
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Beer and biscuit for the fleet
Royal Clarence Yard
The Navy’s old victualling yard on the Gosport shore, where beer was brewed and biscuit baked for the fleet.
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English Heritage
Fort Brockhurst
One of the forts built in the 1850s and 1860s to guard Portsmouth against invasion, with its moated keep.
Gunners Way, Elson, Gosport PO12 4DSExplore View on map
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Opposite the Dockyard
Haslar Marina
A marina just inside the harbour entrance, opposite Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, with the Lightship restaurant.
Haslar Road, Gosport PO12 1NUExplore View on map
Arts & Culture
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Climb aboard HMS Alliance
The Submarine Museum and HMS Alliance
Climb aboard the submarine HMS Alliance and see Holland 1, the Royal Navy’s first submarine, at the museum on Gosport’s waterfront.
Haslar Road, Gosport PO12 2ASExplore View on map
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The only one in the UK
The Diving Museum
The UK’s only museum of diving, in a Victorian battery on the shore at Stokes Bay.
No. 2 Battery, Stokes Bay Road, Gosport PO12 2QTExplore View on map
Property
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Across from Portsmouth
Gosport waterfront
Homes and apartments along the harbour, at Royal Clarence Yard and around the marinas, four minutes by ferry from Portsmouth.
Getting there and around
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About four minutes
The Gosport Ferry
The little ferry across Portsmouth Harbour, from beside the station to Gosport, every few minutes.
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