Gosport

By road

Leave the M27 at Junction 11 and follow the A32. At rush hour, and sometimes at weekends, this is a busy road with long delays.

By ferry

The Gosport ferry across the harbour mouth is the most convenient way to get to Gosport from Portsmouth. An adult ticket costs £3.40 return, £1.90 for children or pensioners. Combination tickets are also available giving unlimited bus travel for a day in Hampshire. The website has details of ferry schedules and ticket pricing.

• Explosion - Museum of Naval Firepower

  address: Heritage Way, Priddy's Hard, PO12 4LE
  Award winning museum of naval gunfire. Shuttle bus in summer from Gosport ferry or a 15-minute walk.

• Royal Navy Submarine Museum

  address: Haslar Jetty Rd, PO12 2AS
  Collection includes the World War II-era HMS Alliance and HMS Holland 1, the Royal Navy's first submarine. There are also a couple of midget submarines and a large collection of smaller items.

• Barley Mow

  address: 31-33 Ann's Hill Rd
  Main menu available M-F 5-9PM; Sa Su noon-9PM. Refurbished.

Alternatively there is accommodation in neighbouring Portsmouth.

• Spinnakers Bed and Breakfast

  phone: +44 23 9255 3221
  address: 34 Leamington Cres, Lee-on-the-Solent, PO13 9HN
  Comfortable accommodation with convenient access to both Gosport and Fareham.

Rowner

• Living History Village of Little Woodham, 17th-century village on ancient woodland in Rowner (on the Gosport peninsula). Gosport Living History Society villagers dress in costume to talk about Charles I, the impending war between the King and Parliament, their village life and day-to-day existence as if it were the summer of 1642.

Portsmouth, with its naval dockyard, D-Day museum and other attractions, lies across the harbour. There is a shingle beach with views of the Isle of Wight near Gosport at Alverstoke, and another at Lee-on-Solent.