Visit Cosham Places

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

  

Cosham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cosham

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Cosham history

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Cosham railway station was until 1935 the terminus for City trams and trolleybuses from the south and Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway trams to the north. It has been for many years a local route centre as a pinch point for buses travelling in and out of Portsmouth.

Cosham toponymy

The name is of Saxon origin (shown by the -ham suffix) and means “Cossa’s homestead” Originally pronounced /ˈkɒsəm/ since the latter half of the 20th century has become more widely used. Until the 1920s it was a separate small village surrounded by fields.

You can visit Cosham places with Walkfo Cosham to hear history at Cosham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cosham has 52 places to visit in our interactive Cosham 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 Cosham, 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 Cosham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cosham & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 52 audio facts unique to Cosham places in an interactive Cosham map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Cosham Places Map
52 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Cosham places to visit

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

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 .

Fort Widley Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868. It was designed to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear.

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.

Portus Adurni Portus Adurni was a Roman fort in the Roman province of Britannia. It is the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps. It was later converted into a medieval castle known as Portchester Castle.

Portsdown Hill The highest point of the hill lies within Fort Southwick at 131m above sea level. The ridge offers good views to the south over Portsmouth, the Solent, Hayling Island and Gosport, with the Isle of Wight beyond. The hill is formed from an inlier of chalk brought to the surface by an east–west upfold of the local strata known as the Portsdown Anticline.

Fort Southwick Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire.

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