Ferry to Portsmouth

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The destination

Portsmouth

Portsmouth is the only island city in the United Kingdom: the old town sits on Portsea Island, joined to the mainland by bridges. It produced two famous sons within six years of each other. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsea in 1806 and Charles Dickens followed in 1812 at a modest house in Landport, now a museum furnished as it would have been in his day. Over in Southsea, a young doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle ran a practice in the 1880s and wrote the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, while waiting for patients. Ferries leave from the International Port on the harbour's eastern side for Normandy, Brittany, the Channel Islands and northern Spain, so many visitors arrive here with a long drive or an overnight sailing ahead of them.

Practical information

The ferry port at Portsmouth

International Port: Brittany Ferries and Condor sail from Portsmouth International Port. Use the sat-nav postcode PO2 8SP. The M275 leads directly to the port.

By train: Portsmouth & Southsea station is about 1.2 miles away, a 5-minute taxi ride or a walk of 20 to 30 minutes.

Isle of Wight: Wightlink's car ferries to Fishbourne leave from Gunwharf Road (PO1 2LA), and its Ryde catamaran leaves from Portsmouth Harbour station. Hovertravel leaves from Southsea, so check which terminal is on your ticket.

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