Historic ship · Southampton · Hampshire

Shieldhall

Shieldhall is a 1955 steamship. Head into Southampton’s built-up area to find it. 54 other places to visit are within 15 km, led by Southampton Castle (2.7 km).

Photo: Shieldhall, dave souza (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Where

In Southampton

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 23%

#1,932 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Historic ship in Southampton

Inside Southampton

Shieldhall is inside Southampton’s built-up area, with 17 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

Which month to go

Aim for May to September, when Southampton reaches 18–23°C.

Jan9° / 3°95 mm

Feb9° / 3°67 mm

Mar12° / 4°57 mm

Apr15° / 6°57 mm

May18° / 9°49 mm

Jun21° / 11°55 mm

Jul23° / 13°51 mm

Aug23° / 13°63 mm

Sep20° / 11°66 mm

Oct16° / 9°95 mm

Nov12° / 5°102 mm

Dec9° / 3°95 mm

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

About

Shieldhall

Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages.

Type: Historic ship
Wikipedias: Covered in 4 languages
Town: in Southampton
Official site: ss-shieldhall.co.uk

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

The map

The area around Shieldhall

The orange dot is Shieldhall; the numbers are the places near it, as listed below.

Towns near it

Bases for a visit

In size, Southampton comes first of the 7, with 249,633 people. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.

1 · It’s in town

Southampton

249,633 people · 31 places to visit

2 · 700 m south of it

Marchwood

5,776 people · 22 places to visit

3 · 2.6 km west of it

Totton

28,093 people · 13 places to visit

4 · 3.5 km north of it

Rownhams and Nursling

4,796 people · 15 places to visit

Compare the 7 towns

Town	Where Shieldhall is	People	Places to visit
Southampton	It’s in town	249,633	31
Marchwood	700 m south of it	5,776	22
Totton	2.6 km west of it	28,093	13
Rownhams and Nursling	3.5 km north of it	4,796	15
Hythe and Dibden Purlieu	4.3 km southeast of it	19,857	23
Ashurst	4.7 km west of it	2,370	6
Chilworth	5 km northeast of it	1,169	9

Make a day of it

Close to Shieldhall

Our list has 54 more within 15 km, among them 4 museums, 2 castles and a theme park.

CastleSouthampton Castle2.7 km away 2

Big drawTheme parkPaultons Park9 km away · 1.1M visitors a year (2019)3

MuseumSeaCity Museum2.4 km away 4

Art gallerySouthampton City Art Gallery2.5 km away 5

Museum · English HeritageMedieval Merchants House2.8 km away 6

MuseumTudor House Museum2.7 km away 7

CastleNetley Castle6.7 km away 8

MuseumNational Motor Museum9.5 km away

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

Questions before you go

Where is Shieldhall?

Shieldhall is in Southampton, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Shieldhall?

1955 steamship.

When is the best time to visit Shieldhall?

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

What else is there to see near Shieldhall?

Within 15 km: Southampton Castle (2.7 km), Paultons Park (9 km), SeaCity Museum (2.4 km) and Southampton City Art Gallery (2.5 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)

Shieldhall: dave souza, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Southampton Castle: John Speed, 17th century artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Paultons Park: Paultons Park Home of Peppa Pig World, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
SeaCity Museum: hahnchen at Wikimedia Commons (must include link if medium allows), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Southampton City Art Gallery: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Medieval Merchants House: Tim Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tudor House Museum: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Netley Castle: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Motor Museum: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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