Hovercraft Museum
Hovercraft Museum is a maritime museum. Look for it within Lee-on-the-Solent’s built-up area. Within 15 km there are 112 more places to visit, starting with HMS Victory (7.1 km).
Museum in Lee-on-the-Solent
Inside Lee-on-the-Solent
Hovercraft Museum is inside Lee-on-the-Solent’s built-up area, with 7 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.
Picking your season
Aim for May to September, when Lee-on-the-Solent reaches 17–22°C.
Hovercraft Museum
It has articles in 2 Wikipedias.
- Type
- Museum
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 2 languages
- Town
- in Lee-on-the-Solent
- Official site
- hovercraft-museum.org
Around Hovercraft Museum, mapped
Hovercraft Museum is in orange, with the places near it numbered as below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Lee-on-the-Solent’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns that list Hovercraft Museum
With 70,120 people, Gosport is the largest of the 5. Start with its own town; the others follow by distance.
Lee-on-the-Solent
Peel Common
Gosport
Fareham
Compare the 5 towns
| Town | Where Hovercraft Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee-on-the-Solent | It’s in town | 24,307 | 21 |
| Peel Common | 1.8 km northeast of it | 263 | 12 |
| Gosport | 2 km east of it | 70,120 | 57 |
| Fareham | 2.7 km north of it | 42,633 | 20 |
| Locks Heath | 4.3 km northwest of it | 35,744 | 11 |
Worth adding to a visit
112 more lie within 15 km, 2 historic ships, 2 castles and a historic house among them.
Historic shipHMS Victory7.1 km away2
Historic house · English HeritageOsborne House7.6 km away3
MuseumMary Rose7.3 km away4
Historic shipHMS Warrior7.2 km away5
Castle · English HeritagePortchester Castle7.5 km away6
AttractionSpinnaker Tower7.3 km away7
CathedralPortsmouth Cathedral7.7 km away8
Castle · English HeritageCalshot Castle7 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Your questions on Hovercraft Museum
Where is Hovercraft Museum?
Hovercraft Museum is in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Hovercraft Museum?
Maritime museum in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit Hovercraft Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Lee-on-the-Solent, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Hovercraft Museum?
Within 15 km: HMS Victory (7.1 km), Osborne House (7.6 km), Mary Rose (7.3 km) and HMS Warrior (7.2 km).
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)
- Hovercraft Museum: Frammy7, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Victory: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Osborne House: Humac45, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Rose: Mary Rose Trust, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Warrior: geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Portchester Castle: Matthew Folley from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Spinnaker Tower: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Portsmouth Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Calshot Castle: Geni, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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