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Portsmouth

Portsmouth
Administration
Full namePortsmouth
Official nameCity of Portsmouth
Settlement typeCity and Unitary Authority Area
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
RegionSouth East England
Ceremonial countyHampshire
Admin HQPortsmouth City Centre
Government
TypeUnitary authority, City
Governing bodyPortsmouth City Council
LeadershipLeader & Cabinet
Geography
Total Area15.5 sq mi (40.25 km2)
Demography
Total Population  (Ranked   80th) ( )
Ethnicity
(United Kingdom Census 2006 Estimate)
91.4% White
3.6% S.Asian
1.2% Black
1.3% Mixed
2.5% Chinese and other

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Portsmouth (c-enlocalen-uk-Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is the United Kingdom's only island city, being mainly located on Portsea Island. It is situated 64 mi (103 km) south west from London and 19 mi (30.6 km) south east from Southampton.

As a significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth is home to the world's oldest dry dock still in use and also home to some famous ships, including the HMS Warrior and Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. Although smaller than in its heyday, the naval base remains a major dockyard and base for the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Commandos whose Headquarters resides there. There is also a thriving commercial ferryport serving destinations on the continent for freight and passenger traffic. The City of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Football Club are both nicknamed Pompey. The nickname Pompey is thought to have derived from shipping entering Portsmouth harbour making an entry in their logs as Pom. P. in reference to Portsmouth Point. Navigational charts also use this abbreviation. Another theory concerning the origin of the nickname "Pompey" for the football team and city lies in a lecture by Dame Agnes Weston ["Aggie"] the co-founder [with Sophia Wintz] of the Royal Sailors' Rests, an Evangelical Christian Temperance enterprise. She gave 'improving' talks to sailors in the evenings to provide an alternative to visiting the numerous licensed premises in the area. One such talk was on the Roman Civil War and, such was her passion in describing the demise of the Roman General by his rival Julius Caesar, that one of the sailors shouted out, "Poor old Pompey!"; the following day he and his friends attended a football match during which the home team were flagging and the cry was repeated � "Poor old Pompey!"; the name stuck to the team and was eventually transferred as an affectionate nickname to the whole city.

The Spinnaker Tower is a striking recent addition to the city's skyline. It can be found in the redeveloped former HMS Vernon, an area of retail outlets, restaurants, clubs and bars now known as Gunwharf Quays.

The Portsmouth Urban Area covers an area with a population well over twice that of the city of Portsmouth itself, and includes Fareham, Portchester, Gosport, Havant (which includes the large suburbs of Leigh Park), Lee-on-the-Solent, Stubbington and Waterlooville. The administrative unit itself has a population of 197,700, which forms part of the wider Portsmouth conurbation, with an estimated 442,252 residents within the wider urban area making it the 11th largest urban area in England. At the 2001 census it was the only city in England with a greater population density ( ) than London as a whole ( ), although many of London's individual boroughs had a much greater density.

The suburbs of Portsmouth arguably form a conurbation stretching from Southampton to Havant on the M27/A27 road along the coast, and north to Clanfield on the A3 road.

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ABC Online--Scott Neville (r) will trial with -Portsmouth- for two weeks. (file photo) (Getty Images: Paul Kane) Perth Glory defender Scott Neville has secured a two-week trial with English Championship side -Portsmouth-, starting April 2. Neville was due - Date : Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:43:45 GMT+00:00
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Population change
City centre :
Year Dwellings Population
1310 740 (est)
1560 1000 (est)
1801 5310 32,160
1851 12,825 72,096
1901 36,368 188,133
1951 233,545
1961 68,618 215,077
1971 197,431
1981 175,382
1991 177,142
2001 186,700

City centre :
Year Regional Gross Value Added[4] Agriculture[1] Industry[2] Services[3]
1995 2,024 � 496 1,528
2000 2,750 � 658 2,092
2003 3,362 � 705 2,657

Districts of South East England

Adur * Arun * Ashford * Aylesbury Vale * Basingstoke and Deane * Bracknell Forest * Brighton & Hove * Canterbury * Cherwell * Chichester * Chiltern * Crawley * Dartford * Dover * Eastbourne * East Hampshire * Eastleigh * Elmbridge * Epsom and Ewell * Fareham * Gosport * Gravesham * Guildford * Hart * Hastings * Havant * Horsham * Isle of Wight * Lewes * Maidstone * Medway * Mid Sussex * Milton Keynes * Mole Valley * New Forest * Oxford * Portsmouth * Reading * Reigate and Banstead * Rother * Runnymede * Rushmoor * Sevenoaks * Shepway * Slough * Southampton * South Bucks * South Oxfordshire * Spelthorne * Surrey Heath * Swale * Tandridge * Test Valley * Thanet * Tonbridge and Malling * Tunbridge Wells * Vale of White Horse * Waverley * Wealden * West Berkshire * West Oxfordshire * Winchester * Windsor and Maidenhead * Woking * Wokingham * Worthing * Wycombe
Counties with multiple districts: Berkshire * Buckinghamshire * East Sussex * Hampshire * Kent * Oxfordshire * Surrey * West Sussex

Places with city status in the United Kingdom

EnglandBath * Birmingham * Bradford * Brighton & Hove * Bristol * Cambridge * Canterbury * Carlisle * Chester * Chichester * Coventry * Derby * Durham * Ely * Exeter * Gloucester * Hereford * Kingston upon Hull * Lancaster * Leeds * Leicester * Lichfield * Lincoln * Liverpool * City of London * Manchester * Newcastle upon Tyne * Norwich * Nottingham * Oxford * Peterborough * Plymouth * Portsmouth * Preston * Ripon * St Albans * Salford * Salisbury * Sheffield * Southampton * Stoke-on-Trent * Sunderland * Truro * Wakefield * Wells * Westminster * Winchester * Wolverhampton * Worcester * York
ScotlandAberdeen * Dundee * Edinburgh * Glasgow * Inverness * Stirling
WalesBangor * Cardiff * Newport * St David's * Swansea
Northern IrelandArmagh * Belfast * Derry * Lisburn * Newry

Unitary authorities of England

DistrictsBath and North East Somerset * Bedford * Blackburn with Darwen * Blackpool * Bournemouth * Bracknell Forest * Brighton and Hove * Bristol * Central Bedfordshire * Cheshire East * Cheshire West and Chester * Cornwall * County Durham * Darlington * Derby * East Riding of Yorkshire * Halton * Hartlepool * Herefordshire * Isle of Wight * Kingston upon Hull * Leicester * Luton * Medway * Middlesbrough * Milton Keynes * North East Lincolnshire * North Lincolnshire * North Somerset * Northumberland * Nottingham * Peterborough * Plymouth * Poole * Portsmouth * Reading * Redcar and Cleveland * Rutland * Shropshire * Slough * Southampton * Southend-on-Sea * South Gloucestershire * Stockton-on-Tees * Stoke-on-Trent * Swindon * Telford and Wrekin * Thurrock * Torbay * Warrington * West Berkshire * Wiltshire * Windsor and Maidenhead * Wokingham * York
CouncilsBath and North East Somerset * Bedford * Blackburn with Darwen * Blackpool * Bournemouth * Bracknell Forest * Brighton and Hove * Bristol * Central Bedfordshire * Cheshire East * Cheshire West and Chester * Cornwall * County Durham * Darlington * Derby * East Riding of Yorkshire * Halton * Hartlepool * Herefordshire * Isle of Wight * Kingston upon Hull * Leicester * Luton * Medway * Middlesbrough * Milton Keynes * North East Lincolnshire * North Lincolnshire * North Somerset * Northumberland * Nottingham * Peterborough * Plymouth * Poole * Portsmouth * Reading * Redcar and Cleveland * Rutland * Shropshire * Slough * Southampton * Southend-on-Sea * South Gloucestershire * Stockton-on-Tees * Stoke-on-Trent * Swindon * Telford and Wrekin * Thurrock * Torbay * Warrington * West Berkshire * Wiltshire * Windsor and Maidenhead * Wokingham * York



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