Gosport

Gosport is a town and district in Hampshire with around 78,000 inhabitants, situated on the south coast of England. Part of the South Hampshire conurbation, it lies on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour opposite the city of Portsmouth, to which it is linked by a pedestrian ferry. Gosport is said to be the largest town in Britain without an operational railway station.

Famous connections

• Henry Cort, the Industrial Revolution iron founder - based in Gosport
• Richard Dawson - actor, born in Gosport
• Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, liberal Victorian clergyman, was made Rector of Alverstoke in 1840
• Nat Gonella - jazz trumpeter and bandleader, long associated with, and died in, Gosport
• Arthur Upfield - author (creator of the Australian detective "Bony") - born in Gosport http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aupfiel.htm