The Hovercraft Museum – Lee On The Solent
About a mile and a half to the east of Trevarner Guest House at Lee On The Solent you will find the ever evolving and growing Hovercraft Museum.
A unique collection of British designed hovercraft detailing their history and various applications from the smallest of hovercraft to the largest cross channel hovercraft ever built. Renovation work continues on the last surviving cross channel hovercraft The Princess Anne.
Hovercraft pleasure rides can be enjoyed from the slipway at the museum at Lee On Solent.
Portsmouth
A thirty to forty minute (15 minutes via the Gosport Ferry) drive to the East is the city of Portsmouth, home to the Royal Navy and to the historic naval dockyard museums including Nelson’s flag ship, ‘HMS Victory’, which still enjoys a dual role as Flagship of the First Sea Lord and a living museum to the Georgian navy.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is also home to Henry VIII’s famous flagship ‘The Mary Rose’. This famous Tudor warship is on display in its new and stunning museum. The historic dockyard is open to visitors.
A visit to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard also provides the opportunity to visit the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower at Gosport. An interactive museum housed in the Royal Navy’s former Ordnance Depot at Priddy’s Hard, centred around the powder magazine designed in 1771.
And Portsmouth Historic Dockyard also features the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, also at Gosport, where you can take a tour onboard HMS Alliance, the only remaining WW2 era submarine, and take a journey through every decade of her service.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard tickets can include an annual pass ticket so if you do not complete your tour on the first visit you can return on the same ticket within twelve months. See their website for more details.
Portsmouth Southsea sea front is home to the annual Great South Run and musical festivals such as the August Summer Victorious Festival. Portsmouth can also be visited from Gosport where the long standing Gosport Ferry will cross the busy Portsmouth Harbour to deliver you to the cosmopolitan shopping centre, restaurants and cinema’s at Gunwharf Quays as well as Portsmouth Harbour train and bus stations. The impressive Emirates Spinnaker Tower is accessed from Gunwharf Quays. All within a five minute walk of the ferry drop off point.
Gosport
Gosport, a fifteen minute drive to the east of the guests house, more than holds its own when it comes to its own national nautical relevance, the town is the home to many busy marinas and is the base for the famous Camper and Nicholsons Boatyard, the home of the Classic ‘J’ Class Racing yachts of the 1920’s and 30’s to Sir Francis Chichester’s Gypsy Moth IV and to todays blue water Ocean Racing yachts. Gosport is also host to fascinating museums which reflects the ports historical naval importance to the Royal Navy through the centuries including the Royal Navy Submarine Museum and the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
nmrn.org.uk/visit-us/submarine-museum?
historicdockyard.co.uk/discover/explosion-museum-of-naval-firepower
Southampton
Slightly further to the West is the city of Southampton one of the countries busiest maritime cities and home to the many cruise ships that can be seen passing through the Solent from our sun lounge above the guest house entrance.
Southampton is famous for its extensive nautical and maritime heritage. The centre piece of Southampton SeaCity museum is the story of the White Star Liner ‘Titanic’.
Or visit the extensive West Quays shopping centre
Fort Nelson – Royal Armouries
Between Fareham and Portsmouth and a twenty minute drive from Trevarner Guest House and located on Portsdown Hill is Fort Nelson and the Royal Armouries. Free entry and a small fee for parking.
royalarmouries.org/venue/fort-nelson/
Fort Brockhurst – English Heritage
Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It is now an English Heritage property.
Interior viewing 11am to 3pm on the second Saturday of the month. The exterior can be viewed at any reasonable time during daylight hours.
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