Gosport - Definition

Borough of Gosport
Shown within Hampshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Hampshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 343rd 25.29 km²
Admin. HQ:	Gosport
ONS code:	24UF
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 301st 77,092 3,048 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.3% White
Politics
Gosport Borough Council http://www.gosport.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:	Conservative (minority administration)
MP:	Peter Viggers

Gosport is a small town on the South Coast of England, in Hampshire. It lies opposite the city of Portsmouth, on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour. There is a ferry to Portsmouth.

The Rowner area of the peninsular was known to have been settled in Saxon times (http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol12/page003.html). With settlements in the wider dating back much earlier (http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol10/page005.html).

The borough's name is believed to derive from 'gorse' or 'goose'.

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Districts of England - South East England
Adur \| Arun \| Ashford \| Aylesbury Vale \| Basingstoke and Deane \| Bracknell Forest \| Brighton and 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
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Berkshire - Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex

Example Usage of Gosport
	CloudedCircus: @RiriGunawan Gosport :)
	fintanbear: @richboden more sailors in Pompey! Some use the Gosport smiley ferry when I do.
	ExplorerBelt: 7th Gosport apparently came up with some really great challenges (we haven't seen them if course)

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Gosport - Definition

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