Places to explore near Portsmouth & Southsea StationPortsmouth

Seaside island between Langstone and Chichester harbours, with long shingle beaches, the Hayling Billy Trail and birdwatching at the Oysterbeds

4.6 km E

Grazing marsh on Langstone Harbour, a sea-wall loop.

5.8 km NE

Chalk downs ending at the Needles, Osborne and Carisbrooke Castle, dinosaur-fossil coasts and sailing at Cowes, a short ferry from the mainland

6.5 km S

A big tidal harbour of creeks and mudflats on the Sussex and Hampshire coast, full of boats and birds, with a sandy spit at the mouth

8.1 km E

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

0.3 km NW · spans 24 counties

Pair of ornate gates from Portsmouth's mostly vanished town ramparts: the 1687 King James's Gate, since moved, and Landport Gate of 1760, still in place.

0.4 km SW

Hampshire's shoreline from Milford on Sea to Emsworth, past Hurst Castle, the Beaulieu River and Portsmouth's naval harbours.

0.9 km W · Hampshire

Chapel of the Domus Dei, a hospital founded around 1212 in Old Portsmouth and later the garrison's church, its nave roofless since bombing in 1941.

1.4 km SW

Fort of around 1860 in Gosport, one of a ring guarding Portsmouth against French invasion, with a round keep set within its own moat.

4.8 km W

A country park in Hampshire.

5.3 km W

Combe Gibbet to Emsworth harbour across Watership Down and the Hampshire chalk — high downland one end, saltmarsh the other.

6.6 km N · Hampshire & Berkshire