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Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. [5] Located in southern Ohio 41 miles (66 km) south of Chillicothe , it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River , across from Kentucky and just east of the mouth of the Scioto River .
The name Fratton was once Froddington, a Saxon name which originally meant "Frodda's Farm" or "Frodda's village". A pub on Fratton Road is still named "The Froddington Arms". [3] There is a commemorative plaque by the petrol station near Fratton Asda, marking where a bomb shelter was hit by a bomb on 10 January 1941, killing 80 people. [4]
Fratton railway station is a railway station in the city of Portsmouth, on Portsea Island in England. It was opened in the Fratton area of Portsmouth on 1 July 1885 as an interchange station between the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the short-lived Southsea Railway branchline.
Milton (Milton → City of Portsmouth → Hampshire → South East England → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 50° 47′ 45.3″ N, 1° 03′ 54″ W
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway. East Southsea was the name of two terminus railway stations of the 1.25 mile [1] Southsea Railway, which linked the Southsea seaside resort with the Portsmouth Direct Line at Fratton railway station. [2]
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Portsmouth, showing the Southsea Railway. The Southsea Railway was a short railway branch line. It was built to give easier access from the jointly operated main line railway approaching Portsmouth to the Clarence Pier from which Isle of Wight ferries sailed.
Fratton Park has been the only home football ground in Portsmouth F.C.'s entire history. Fratton Park was built in 1899 by Alfred H. Bone, a Portsmouth-based architect, surveyor and a founding director of the football club. The site of Fratton Park was formerly a market garden potato field in a Portsea Island farming village named Milton. By ...
In Portsmouth Harbour, a road bridge connects Portsea Island to Whale Island, a restricted Royal Navy shore base establishment. Portsea Island has four railway stations (Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth & Southsea, Fratton and Hilsea) connected by an island branch line to the mainland railway network via a short railway bridge over Portsea Creek.