Portsmouth, England, UK - Driving Tour 4K

Portsmouth (/ˈpɔːrtsməθ/ (listen) PORTS-məth) is a port and city in the county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth is a unitary authority, which is administered by Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth is the most densely populated city in the United Kingdom, with a population last recorded at 238,800. Portsmouth is located 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Southampton. Portsmouth is mostly located on Portsea Island; the only English city not on the mainland of Great Britain. Portsea Island has the third highest population in the British Isles after the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Portsmouth also forms part of the regional South Hampshire conurbation, which includes the city of Southampton and the boroughs of Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant and Waterlooville.
Portsmouth is one of the world's best known ports, its history can be traced to Roman times and has been a significant Royal Navy dockyard and base for centuries. Portsmouth was first established as a town with a royal charter on 2 May 1194. Portsmouth was England's first line of defence during an attempted French invasion in 1545 at the Battle of the Solent, famously notable for the sinking of the carrack Mary Rose and witnessed by King Henry VIII of England from Southsea Castle. Portsmouth has the world's oldest dry dock, "The Great Stone Dock"; originally built in 1698, rebuilt in 1769 and presently known as "No.5 Dock".[6] The world's first mass production line was established at the naval base's Block Mills which produced pulley blocks for the Royal Navy fleet. By the early-19th century, Portsmouth was the most heavily fortified city in the world, and was considered "the world's greatest naval port" at the height of the British Empire throughout Pax Britannica. By 1859, a ring of defensive land and sea forts, known as the Palmerston Forts had been built around Portsmouth in anticipation of an invasion from continental Europe.
In the 20th century, Portsmouth achieved city status on 21 April 1926.[7] During the Second World War, the city was a pivotal embarkation point for the D-Day landings and was bombed extensively in the Portsmouth Blitz, which resulted in the deaths of 930 people. In 1982, a large Royal Navy task force departed from Portsmouth for the Falklands War. Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was formerly based in Portsmouth and oversaw the transfer of Hong Kong in 1997, after which, Britannia was retired from royal service, decommissioned and relocated to Leith as a museum ship.
HMNB Portsmouth is an operational Royal Navy base and is home to two-thirds of the UK's surface fleet. The base has long been nicknamed Pompey, a nickname it shares with the wider city of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Football Club. The naval base also contains the National Museum of the Royal Navy and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; which has a collection of historic warships, including the Mary Rose, Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission), and HMS Warrior, the Royal Navy's first ironclad warship.
The former HMS Vernon shore establishment has been redeveloped into a large retail outlet destination known as Gunwharf Quays which opened in 2001. Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals: the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower, one of the United Kingdom's tallest structures at 560 feet (170 m).
Southsea is Portsmouth's seaside resort, which was named after Southsea Castle. Southsea has two piers; Clarence Pier amusement park and South Parade Pier. The world's only regular hovercraft service operates from Southsea Hoverport to Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Southsea Common is a large open-air public recreation space which serves as a venue for a wide variety of annual events.
Portsmouth F.C. is the city's professional association football club and play their home games at Fratton Park. The city has several mainline railway stations that connect to London Victoria and London Waterloo amongst other lines in southern England. Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations. The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover, handling around three million passengers a year. The city formerly had its own airport, Portsmouth Airport, until its closure in 1973. The University of Portsmouth enrols 23,000 students and is ranked among the world's best modern universities.
Portsmouth is the birthplace of notable people such as author Charles Dickens, engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, former Prime Minister James Callaghan, actor Peter Sellers and author-journalist Christopher Hitchens.
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[@viewerabundzu6887]

I lived here from 1975- 1979; great time, great music, Portsmouth developed really well, still a great maritime city. Keep doing your tours❤

[@LEREDOUTABLE]

Thanks for the video. I spent in Portsmouth a whole summer back in 1993. I attended English Meridian School. I had such a great time. Lots of 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@ckSport3000]

Cool! Thanks for the video! I'm coming to Portsmouth for a month long airbnb.. ALWAYS wanted to live in the UK.. I arrive next week. Curtis, retired US Navy from Las Vegas

[@LauRoot892]

Really ?

[@ElzevereBlock]

Think very carefully mate about what you said? This is a very dangerous place for people who don't know where they're going. This video was done by an idiot who drove up the same street twice and went round the same roundabout three times and ended up where he started. A little 18 year old black immigrant was stabbed to death here on the Guildhall steps last week and nobody bothered to help him. In the city centre too?

[@viewerabundzu6887]

hope you had fun😊

[@stewartgellatly8073]

A great Scenic Drive video mainly on account of no recording of delays at traffic lights etc.which plague most other Scenic Drive videos. Audio is good too. Well done.

[@StephenSwindley]

A+ for the City, B- for the driving (lane discipline, appropriate speed, planning, red light), shame as it detracts from the video. Fortunately, it was a nice day with light traffic and I know some of the road layouts have been changed in the last 5-10 years but the markings are there.

[@LewisDebenham]

3:55 Thats a red light you went through

[@salus1231]

ikr. A red light and he posts it up. A 5 second edit i think at that timestamp and that horn you hear at 4.42 probably for him 😎 I think he's American.

[@fredpepper4773]

Lived in Portsmouth from when I was 8 to 18 left in 1969 I'm sorry to say it but they have ripped the heart out of it now was there in January 2024 and all it is now is a massive road system ! It was better in the 60s 😥😥😥😥

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

I visited Portsmouth as a little kid in the sixties with parents and relatives to see HMS Victory. I have been back a couple of times to catch ferries to Ouistreham, staying in B&Bs and Ibis. It's like you say and this video shows. Just a massive road system and nothing else. Utterly dreary.

[@stephenoneill245]

Never rated Pompey much, especially the back streets. Only saving grace was the Isle of Wight ferry home (ok - and HMS Victory).

[@catherinestevens7314]

Would consider subscribing if there was a commentary to these videos. Did not know where the video went.

[@michaelmarchant1498]

Really missed the best parts of Portsmouth. Southsea seas front. Gun Whalf Quays and the residential area's not forgetting Fratton Park

[@Ghostlove92Kat]

So I have a potential job opportunity in Portsmouth. I've always wanted to live in the UK, but I really wanted to live in London. However, I know getting a job/company there to sponsor you is extremely hard so I'm wondering if Portsmouth is worth it, just to get myself to the UK. I'm def more of a big city girl, but I love the ocean and nature/hiking/kayaking too. I'm just worried it's "too small, not enough people, not enough to do" and also too many young college students because it's a university town (I'm 31). any advice, thoughts? thank you in advance!

[@metroidprime3863]

Stay away from London you will much happier in Portsmouth.

[@FinalSpaceYesPeppaPigNo]

That’s My Country

[@002lisamarie]

It looks nice to me. I thought it was supposed to be rough ?

[@angelsackson]

It’s foreign AF.

[@002lisamarie]

@@angelsackson Lots of immigrants?

[@wefwefwef.]

There are nice areas and very rough areas, this vid showed mostly nicer areas

[@002lisamarie]

@@wefwefwef. Ok thanks x

[@lesgeorge9166]

Parts are it was a whole lot better in the 80s

[@vacuouslyfalse]

Who gave you license

[@stewartgellatly8073]

Probably the same person who taught you to spell

[@donsswitchlite8178]

This is my home town, you lane discipline is terrible and probably a lack of indicating thats why you was beeped and then run a red light

[@stewartgellatly8073]

WERE beeped and RAN a red light

[@PaulHC60]

Portsmouth does have speed limits...you need to obey the laws! Respect the residents!!!

[@HareToday]

And….. your route planning needs attention.

[@user-cr1iz8fw6h]

Looks like an American city lol.

[@StevenFay-ls7wx]

💩 Portsmouth 😅

[@JohnnyCarroll-wi6tx]

boring.

[@Ron-u1z]

This was my stomping ground from 85 /92 when I served in the Royal Navy. HMS INTREPID, hi John boy hope you see this post was my first ship, then the arm for only 5 months as emergency draught ( seen off). I grew up in portsmouth as I joined when I was only 17. Brilliant days but that's when we had a navy, 78000 matelots and 64 capital ships. WTF HAPPENED. Our senior officers had neither the balls of courage to stand up for their service's incase they lost their fat pensions and an even better paid job with another fat pension when they left the navy to work for one of the defence companies or whitehall where the old school tie still exists.

[@leecarey3176]

Your driving is terrible...

[@ElzevereBlock]

Next time get someone who doesn't drive up the same street twice and round the same roundabout three times and end up where they started. What happened to Fratton and North End then.....? Too scared to drive there?

[@chuwmumamark2848]

😂😂😂 like I've been living here nearly all my life and I was even shock