Stamshaw is a residential district of
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in En ...
, located on the north western corner of
Portsea Island in southern England.
Much of it consists of dense rows of "
two up, two down"
terraced housing built during the late 19th century and early 20th century for dockyard workers and their families. Due to the rising cost of houses in the south in recent years, it has become one of the key areas for first time buyers.
The area once included a greyhound racing stadium (closed 2010 April and since has been demolished),
Alexandra Park, with the
Mountbatten Sports Centre, and
Portsmouth International Port. To the north lie
Tipner and
Hilsea, and to the south are
Kingston,
Buckland and Commercial Road, the main retail area of the city. Stamshaw is bounded to its west by the
M275 motorway and
Whale Island, and to the east is
North End. The main thoroughfares of Stamshaw are Twyford Avenue and Stamshaw Road, the two parts of a one-way traffic system that runs on a north–south axis to Northern Parade in
Hilsea.
The local middle school is Stamshaw Junior School, and there is Stamshaw Infant School too.
Stamshaw Park has fields and an adventure playground.
In 1804 a Royal Powder Works was established on Stamshaw Point in connection with the
gunpowder magazine
A gunpowder magazine is a magazine (building) designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was a universal explosive used in the military and for civil engineering: both applications re ...
at
Tipner; by 1833, however, it had ceased operation, and no above-ground evidence of the site remains to be seen.
English Heritage National Survey of Ordnance Yards and Magazine Depots, pp10-12
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The area is home to St Saviour church of England church built between 1913 and 1914.
References
Areas of Portsmouth
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