PORTSEA 



Portsea. Peninsula of Hamp- 

 shire, England, known as the 

 island of Portsea. It lies bet \\.-rn 

 Portsmouth and Langstone Har- 

 bours, and is about 6 m. from N. 

 to S. On it stands Portsmouth, 

 and part of that borough is known 

 as Portsea. See Portsmouth 



Portslade. Urban dist. and 

 watering-place of Sussex, England. 

 It is 4 m. W. of Brighton, on the E. 

 side of Shoreham Harbour, with a 

 station on the L.B. & S.C. Rly. 

 The chief building is the church of 

 S. Nicholas. Pop. 6,500. 



Portsmouth. County, munici- 

 pal borough, naval station, and sea- 

 port of Hampshire, England. It 

 stands on a 

 peninsula jutting 

 into the Eng- 

 1 i s h Channel, 

 between Ports- 

 mouth and 

 Langstone Har- 

 bours, and is 74 

 m. from London, 

 with stations on the L. & S.W. 

 and L.B. & S.C. rlys. The borough 

 consists of five parts, Portsmouth 

 proper, Portsea, Landport, South- 

 sea, and Cosham. Portsmouth and 

 Portsea facing the harbour are the 

 naval districts ; Landport to the 

 N.E. is a working-class area; 

 Southsea to the E. and S.E. is a 

 watering-place, and Cosham to the 

 N., mainly an agricultural region. 

 In 1921 Portsmouth supplanted 

 Woolwich as the chief ordnance 

 depot. Arrangements were, in 

 1921, being made to create a new 

 diocese of Portsmouth. 



Apart from the naval establish- 

 ments, the chief buildings are the 

 town hall, a fine modern pile, the 

 church of S. Thomas Becket, a 

 cruciform edifice dating from the 

 12th century but largely restored 

 in modern times, the fine parish 



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Portsmouth arms 



church at Portsea built by W. H. chant guild. It soon became a 

 Smith, the garrison church, origin- port with a considerable trade, but 

 ally part of a hospital and restored its growth as a naval station was 



due to the decay of Porchester, 

 where the harbour was being 



to preserve its Early English char- 

 acter, and the Roman Catholic 

 cathedral. There is a grammar 



closed by the sea. ^About 1540 a 



school. Other buildings of interest royal dockyard was established 

 include the Star and Garter, with here and this was soon extended, 

 its memories of Nelson and other although its great expansion did 

 seamen, the museum housed in the not come until the 19th century, 

 old guildhall, and the Dickens The borough returned two mem- 

 bers to Parliament from 1895- 

 1918, when the number was in- 



museum. There are theatres, pic- 

 ture palaces, and a concert hall. 

 At Southsea is a fine esplanade on 



creased to three. It was made a 



which are several memorials, and county borough in 1888. Dickens, 



here also is an extensive common. 

 Victoria Park is one of several open 

 spaces. The port does a consider- 

 able trade, and steamers go regu- 

 larly from here to Ryde and South- 

 ampton. A ferry and a floating 

 bridge connect it with Gosport. 

 The town has a service of electric 

 tramways. 



Besant, and Meredith were born 

 here. In Oct., 1921, a war 

 memorial was unveiled, consisting 

 of a cenotaph, with statues of a 

 sailor and a soldier in fighting kit. 

 Pop. (1921) 247,343. 



Portsmouth Harbour is an open- 

 ing of the English Channel. The 

 entrance 



Portsmouth, Hampshire. Plan of the town with its five w ." r K e i s, 



districts and the harbour fairs, and a mer- 



a narrow stretch of 

 , water between 

 Portsmouth proper 

 and Gosport, after 

 which it opens out. 

 Porchester is on the 

 N. side of the har- 

 bour, which is about 

 4 m. from N. to S. 

 In it are Whale, 

 Horsea, and Pewit 

 islands. In 1921 a 

 scheme for the 

 devel opment of 

 Langstone Harbour 

 as a mercantile 

 port was being 

 considered by the 

 corporation cf 

 Portsmouth. 



Portsmouth. City of New 

 Hampshire, U.S.A., a co. seat of 

 Rockingham co. It stands on the 

 Piscataqua river, 58 m. by rly. N. 

 by E. of Boston, and is served by 

 the Boston and Maine rly. The 

 only seaport in the state, it has a 

 capacious harbour, containing a 

 number of picturesque islands, on 

 commodation for one of which there is a U.S. navy 

 building and re- yard. Portsmouth has a Federal 

 pairing the largest government building.an athenaeum, 

 warships, and and a public library. Boots and 

 employs shoes are manufactured ; marble is 

 quarried. Settled in 1623, Ports- 

 mouth was incorporated in 1653, 

 and became a city in 1849. Prior 

 to 1807 it was the state capital. 

 The peace treaty between Russia 

 and Japan was concluded here in 

 1905. Pop. 13,600. See Portsmouth, 

 Treaty of ; ^Russo- Japanese War. 



Portsmouth City of Ohio, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Scioto co. 

 It stands at the confluence of the 

 Scioto and Ohio rivers, 114 m. E. 

 by S. of Cincinnati, and is served 

 by the Chesapeake and Ohio and 



became a borough other rlys., and by the Ohio Canal, 

 with markets, Thera-are a number of public parks. 

 It is the centre of an important 



Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Old houses and 

 wharves on the water front 



As the chief naval station of 

 Great Britain, Portsmouth has a 

 royal dockyard covering an area 

 of over 300 acres and having 10 m. 

 of rlys. Connected with it are 

 Admiralty House, barracks, hos- 

 pitals, a naval college, museum, 



and a torpedo 



range. It has ac- 



usually 

 about 15,000 men. 

 It is entered from 

 Portsea Hard. 

 N. of the dockyard 

 is Whale Island, 

 where is the naval 

 gunnery school. 

 Southsea Castle, 

 now a fort, was 

 built in the 16tb 

 century. 



Portsmouth 

 dates from the 12th 

 century, when it 



