Historic ship · Portsmouth · Hampshire

HMS Warrior

HMS Warrior is a 1860 Warrior-class ironclad. Its place is inside Portsmouth’s built-up area. It comes under Royal Navy.

Photo: HMS Warrior, geni (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Portsmouth

inside the built-up area

Run by

Royal Navy

the operator on record

How well known

Top 3%

#195 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Historic ship in Portsmouth

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#195 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (21 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Portsmouth

HMS Warrior is inside Portsmouth’s built-up area, with 47 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Choosing a month

In Portsmouth, May to September bring the warmest days: highs of 18–23°C.

Jan9° / 3°86 mm

Feb9° / 3°60 mm

Mar12° / 4°50 mm

Apr15° / 6°53 mm

May18° / 8°43 mm

Jun21° / 11°50 mm

Jul23° / 13°46 mm

Aug23° / 13°60 mm

Sep20° / 11°58 mm

Oct16° / 9°88 mm

Nov12° / 6°90 mm

Dec10° / 3°89 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Portsmouth, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Portsmouth. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Portsmouth’s full climate →

About

HMS Warrior

Wikipedia covers it in 21 languages. Add HMS Victory, 400 m away, to a visit; it leads 104 places within 15 km.

Type: Historic ship
Run by: Royal Navy
Wikipedias: Covered in 21 languages
Town: in Portsmouth
Official site: nmrn.org.uk/visit-us/portsmouth-historic-dockyard/hms-warrior

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Around HMS Warrior, mapped

Each numbered point is one of the places listed below; HMS Warrior is the orange one.

Towns near it

Towns around HMS Warrior, by distance

The 8 towns are led in size by Portsmouth, with 223,324 people. Each of these towns lists it on its own page of things to do.

1 · It’s in town

Portsmouth

223,324 people · 64 places to visit

2 · 600 m west of it

Gosport

70,120 people · 57 places to visit

3 · 6.4 km northwest of it

Peel Common

263 people · 12 places to visit

4 · 7.7 km west of it

Lee-on-the-Solent

24,307 people · 21 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where HMS Warrior is	People	Places to visit
Portsmouth	It’s in town	223,324	64
Gosport	600 m west of it	70,120	57
Peel Common	6.4 km northwest of it	263	12
Lee-on-the-Solent	7.7 km west of it	24,307	21
Southwick	8.6 km north of it	703	9
Fareham	8.7 km northwest of it	42,633	20
Ryde	9.2 km southwest of it	24,094	28
Pondwell	9.2 km south of it	470	20

Make a day of it

Also near HMS Warrior

Among the 104 within 15 km are 2 museums, 2 cathedrals and a historic ship.

Historic shipHMS Victory400 m away 2

MuseumMary Rose200 m away 3

AttractionSpinnaker Tower300 m away 4

CathedralPortsmouth Cathedral900 m away 5

Castle · English HeritagePortchester Castle4.4 km away 6

Historic house · English HeritageOsborne House12 km away 7

CathedralCathedral of St John the Evangelist1.1 km away 8

MuseumRoyal Naval Museum300 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Questions about HMS Warrior

Where is HMS Warrior?

HMS Warrior is in Portsmouth, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is HMS Warrior?

1860 Warrior-class ironclad.

Who runs HMS Warrior?

Royal Navy.

When is the best time to visit HMS Warrior?

May to September are the warmest months in Portsmouth, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near HMS Warrior?

Within 15 km: HMS Victory (400 m), Mary Rose (200 m), Spinnaker Tower (300 m) and Portsmouth Cathedral (900 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

HMS Warrior: geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Victory: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Mary Rose: Mary Rose Trust, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Spinnaker Tower: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Portsmouth Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Portchester Castle: Matthew Folley from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Osborne House: Humac45, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cathedral of St John the Evangelist: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Royal Naval Museum: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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