Visit Landport Places

Welcome to Visit Landport Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Landport

  

Landport Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Landport

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Landport history

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Halfway Houses took its name from an inn on the road to London from Old Portsmouth. By 1716 a number of other buildings had appeared, including Ridge’s Brewhouse, a sizeable complex which stood on the corner where the main road was met by the road from the Common.

Landport toponymy

Landport Gate held its name as early as 1727. Landport (Town) took the designation of Landport from 1831. The area derives its land from Landport gate.

Landport landmarks

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 1 Mile End Terrace, Mile End, Portsmouth. His former home has since been renamed 393 Old Commercial Road and is now the Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum.

Landport geography / climate

Before World War II the district was mainly a residential area catering for employees of the naval dockyard and their families. The district was heavily damaged by bombing during the war. After the war the decision was made that most of the remaining houses were substandard.

You can visit Landport places with Walkfo Landport to hear history at Landport’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Landport has 129 places to visit in our interactive Landport map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Landport, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Landport places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Landport & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 129 audio facts unique to Landport places in an interactive Landport map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Landport Places Map
129 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Landport historic spots	Landport tourist destinations	Landport plaques	Landport geographic features
Walkfo Landport tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Landport

  

Best Landport places to visit

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Landport has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Landport’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Landport’s information audio spots:

The Bridge Shopping Centre (Portsmouth) The Bridge Shopping Centre is a small shopping centre located in Portsmouth, England . The centre was opened in May 1989 on land which was formerly home to Portsea Island Central Premises Co-Op .

Portsmouth Block Mills The Portsmouth Block Mills were built during the Napoleonic Wars to supply the British Royal Navy with pulley blocks . They started the age of mass-production using all-metal machine tools and are regarded as one of the seminal buildings of the British Industrial Revolution .

Tipner Tipner is a residential district of Portsmouth, located on the north western corner of Portsea Island . It includes a housing estate, built during the 1930s, that used to function as married quarters for the Royal Navy . It is bounded to the north and west by the M275 motorway and Tipner Lake .

Hilsea Hilsea is a district of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Located at the northern end of Portsea Island, for most of its history Hilsea was a small hamlet on the Portsmouth to London road. The name “Hilsea” probably means ‘holly island’ The last working farm in Portsmouth was located in the area up to the 1990s.

Hilsea Lines Hilsea Lines are a line of 18th- and 19th-century fortifications built at Hilsea to protect the northern approach to Portsea Island, an island off the southern coast of England. They are now used as a greenspace and leisure area, also known locally as Foxes Forest.

Mountbatten Centre The Mountbatten Centre is a leisure centre in Portsmouth, England, which opened in 1979. It is located in Hilsea, an area in Portsmouth.

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is an area of HM Naval Base Portsmouth which is open to the public. It contains several historic buildings and ships. It is managed by the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

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