Portsmouth - from Dickens to D-Day

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom; Southsea, England, United Kingdom
Est. 10.8km / 2 hrs 30 mins

Portsmouth is one of the UK's great historic cities. Overseas tourists usually just think of London and Bath, Oxford and Cambridge. But in my view Portsmouth has some of the best historic sites in the country. We cover the Historic Naval Dockyard with the Mary Rose, HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and the Naval Museum in another tour. This time we are looking at the ancient heart of the city - Old Portsmouth and then the D-Day Museum and on to Victorian novelist Charles Dickens's birthplace...

Photo Old Portsmouth by eNil is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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