Loading...
Name: | Portsea Island |
Hill number: | 19109 |
Height: | 8m / 26ft |
Parent (Ma): | none |
RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
County/UA: | Portsmouth |
Island: | Non Tump island |
Class: | SIB (SIB) |
Grid ref: | SU647019 (est) |
Drop: | 8m |
Col: | Sea |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 196 (1:25k) OL3 OL29E 119 |
Comments: | numerous alternative summits |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
Logged Descriptions (logged by 47 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Walked and drove round various possible high points. All very flat with no sense of what was the highest. Settled on St Mary's Church as others have. Walked round the church yard a bit. Pleasant enough spot, but hardly felt like a summit. | Lazylizzie | 18/08/2023 |
Walked around various possible high points. | Minto | 15/01/2023 |
Virtual Blag | BrotherOzwin | 02/01/2023 |
Quick loop round likely spots; brutal wind and rain so couldn't stop to admire the no doubt extensive views (ha!). Kingstone Crescent felt higher than the church to me but given the conditions I didn't feel much like hauling out the old theodolite! | wheresthepath | 19/02/2022 |
Stopped various locations on Kingston Cres. | Basingstone | 28/05/2021 |
Found Charles Dickins' birthplace on the way! With Evan. | Dangerous Dave | 04/10/2020 |
A walk around the sites of Portsmouth in miserably cold, wet and windy weather. Resisted two Wetherspoon's but with the onset of exposure weakened at Morrisons for a warming hot chocolate and somewhere to eat our sandwiches in the dry. Visited St Mary's church built on the site of oldest church on the island so a reasonable chance of being the island high point. Hovercraft to IoW having problems with the wind and waves but eventually escaped the beach. Probably didn't see Portsmouth at its best. | RichardM | 16/02/2020 |
We had an extensive wet and windy walk around the streets of Portsmouth, but the HP is elusive ( or is it just flat?)The location of the Hill-bagging mark is at a new Latter Day Saints church and not convincing; more satisfying was the entrance to St Mary's Church- whose founders in the 6th C would have been less distracted by nearby buildings? This appears to be supported by the old maps. | Denise | 16/02/2020 |
Drove to St Mary's church and walked around the churchyard. | Herbert Anchovy | 04/09/2019 |
visit to Dickens House | arranc | 24/09/2018 |
Just a local walk | Buck | 01/10/2017 |
On a family holiday | Pilotralph | 04/08/2017 |
Parked up and tour a good few churches on Portsea Island. | Dugswell2 | 07/09/2016 |
With Alan Holmes, visited all nine of the 8m spot heights marked on 1:10k map. Ironically highest point seems to be the main church ie St Marys, with benchmark at entrance having a ground level of 7.92m and church at highest point, ground level c.8.5m. The one outlier to SE by naval museum is on old road s of recreation ground, accessible. Details to follow | RHW | 26/02/2016 |
With Lesley (& Betty the Jack Russel) passing over 'high point; and house where Charles Dickens lived whilst walking the 2 miles from our car parked on a side street to the ferry for a 2 day attempt to backpack around the coast of I of W ( only made it half way in roasting sun). | Chris Pearson | 02/05/2013 |
Approx date of visiting Biscoes Solicitors on south side Kingston Crescent. | jonglew | 17/11/2010 |
With: hb sb ab; | Ian Baines | 28/12/2008 |
With: ib sb ab; | Helen Baines | 28/12/2008 |
Bell-ringing at St Mary's church. | richtea5040 | 01/07/1978 |
done while serving in the Royal Navy 1965-1972 
date est; | joseph mitchell | 20/07/1967 |
Tony J | 24/10/2023 | |
DC11main | 23/07/2022 | |
Ben Rinnes | 04/12/2021 | |
Matt | 27/06/2021 | |
rhalstead | 03/10/2020 | |
SteveG | 03/08/2020 | |
Alan Whatley | 24/03/2019 | |
dickiewren | 09/08/2018 | |
andrew brown | 03/08/2016 | |
Sherlock | 26/02/2016 | |
clique | 01/01/2016 | |
stevent0809 | 17/10/2015 | |
Swindon Bagger | 22/09/2015 | |
moylj1 | 09/09/2015 | |
Adrian | 05/09/2015 | |
bellminsterboy | 28/12/2014 | |
griefmiester | 06/09/2012 | |
Coxswain | 10/10/2008 | |
Sainesy | 01/03/2008 | |
matthewgibbs | 11/11/2000 | |
mnixon | 03/01/2000 | |
AndyS | 01/08/1980 | |
chriswatson | 01/05/1971 | |
kanderson | 02/01/1955 | |
jondudley | blank | |
Siimo | blank | |
Halfdecent | blank |