The Clarence Pier pavilion, Southsea. Opened in the 1960s and part of a funfair complex, the pavilion contains an amusement arcade, Bingo hall and food outlets. Read more…
Hayling Lifeboat station was started in 1865 and provides 24 hour emergency cover for all the boat owners and crew based in Chichester Harbour. The station is supported by boat and shore crew as well as volunteers and have qualified as both B and D class helms having followed the RNLI’s competence based training scheme. They are divided into three Read more…
The Star is a Wetherspoon pub in Gosport, Hampshire. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm. Read more…
Pebble Beach restaurant offers coastal dining with stunning coastline views, from the Isle of Wight to Sandbanks. Read more…
Beach: The blue flag Hayling Island beach View: Spectacular views over the beach and the Solent at all times of the year. If you can’t spot the windsurfers, the bar and conservatory also give a great view of the incoming and departing ocean liners leaving Portsmouth and Southampton. What’s on the menu?: This popular pub on the beach serves up Read more…
Designed by the Blackburn engineer R Gale this 1,950ft (591m) pier was intended for the use of passengers traveling to and from the Isle of Wight. In 1904, a serious fire destroyed the structure, reopened in 1908 after a rebuild and now just 600ft (183m). Read more…
The Royal Oak pub overlooks Langstone Harbour, a wildlife sanctuary of outstanding beauty. Read more…
The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily-populated south east of England. It covers south-west Hampshire and extends into south-east Wiltshire. Don’t just think of a forest as the New Forest coast extends for 26 miles in length, as the crow flies, making Read more…
Calshot beach is part of a shingle spit at the west corner of Southampton Water where it joins the Solent, the beach offers panoramic views of the Solent, Isle of Wight and Southampton. This location has always been strategic and is the site of one of Henry VIII defensive forts, Calshot Castle (1539), built to defend the south coast from the Read more…
Portchester Castle’s commanding location as the Solent’s defences for hundreds of years. Originally built in the late 3rd century. Covering an area of nearly ten acres, it is the only Roman stronghold in northern Europe whose walls still mainly stand to their full 6 metre height, complete with most of their originally twenty towers. Read more…
RNLI Portsmouth lifeboat station can be viewed by small numbers of visitors during Sunday mornings. Lifeboats: Atlantic 75 and D class. Boats normally launched on exercise between 9.30 – 10.30am. Read more…
Uppark House and Garden, late 17th-century red brick house elevated upon the South Downs. You can explore the elegant Georgian furnished rooms, take a tour of the gardens and woodland walks, then finish off with something to eat in the restaurant. Read more…
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