HARCOURT ROAD
A new fashion shop on an old corner off Whitworth Road.
| PELHAM ROAD
Ceramic on plain brick off Whitworth Road.
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HARCOURT ROAD (2)
 You can't miss this street with its three signs at one end.
| PELHAM ROAD (2)
The end near Leesland Park.
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COTTAGE GROVE
This lane below the railway line and by Leesland Park joins the ends of Pelham Road and Zetland Road.
| LEESLAND PARK
The exemplary community play and garden areas developed in this park are cared for by the Friends of Leesland Park, who hold an annual festival.
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LAVINIA ROAD
Set into pebbledash rendering and duplicated. A cul-de-sac off Whitworth Road leading to the Leesland Park recreation grounds and allotments.
| WHITWORTH ROAD
Just opposite Leesland school by the Gipsy Queen pub built in 1897.
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TINTERN ROAD
 Leading off Gordon Road.
| RICHMOND ROAD
Parallel to Tintern.
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STOKE ROAD
^ One of the oldest thoroughfares in Gosport. This corner by the White Hart pub also had the railway line running down to Stokes Bay.
> Running down from Stoke Road to Haslar Lake, Shaftesbury Road was split in half, like many others, when South Street was cut through.
| SHAFTESBURY ROAD
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PRINCE OF WALES ROAD
^ Off Stoke Road at the Walpole Park end. Set lower down and starting to lose some letters. Which Prince of Wales was this?
> Clarence Road leads from the High Street north towards Mumby Road and the Navy's old victualling yards.
| CLARENCE ROAD SOUTH
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SEAFIELD TERRACE
On Mayfield Road facing south onto Workhouse Lake. Only the converted gatehouse of the old House of Industry remains on the other side.
| PARK ROAD
Park Road skirts around Gosport Park and its legendary cycle track.
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CLARENCE ROAD
^ Clarence is a big name in Gosport. The historic Royal Clarence Yard is now being redeveloped for a yacht marina, small businesses and dwellings.
> Little Lane is very short and one-way with some old cottages in the heart of Alverstoke village.
| LITTLE LANE
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THE AVENUE
Set high up above an old surveyor's bench mark. The Avenue is long and contains a number of big detached houses.
| VILLAGE ROAD
 Leading from the village centre eastward to Clayhall, places mentioned by local singer songwriter Mike Hugg in Blue Suede Shoes Again on his 1972 album. |
LITTLE LANE (2)
 The bottom end of Little Lane joins Church Road in a pretty square.
| CHURCH ROAD
A variety of shops here, including a great chippy.
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COWARD ROAD
A street of housing in the village.
| PAGET ROAD
More of the same here.
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HASLAR ROAD
 The lengthy Clayhall Road reaches to Haslar, a vast military area including ship reseach facilities, a detention centre, a submarine museum, and the extraordinary historic Haslar Royal Naval Hospital opened in 1760.
| HASLAR ROAD (2)
Behind a huge marina development on the harbour side lie the remains of the revolutionary Gun Boat Yard, its storage sheds and launch ramp.
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BEMISTER'S LANE
Many narrow lanes lead off Gosport High Street north and south (handy escape routes from the press gangs during the Napoleonic wars). This lane shelters a row of small useful shops and connects to car parks on the south side.
| VICTORIA STREET
Beyond the old defence lines, Mumby Road turns into Forton Road (both part of the notorious A32 to Fareham). The Five Alls* pub on the corner of Victoria Street stands opposite new shops and flats.
* Five Alls: five social groups: the king, who governs all; the bishop, who prays for all; a
lawyer, who pleads for all; a soldier, who fights for all, and a
peasant, who pays for all.
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FORTON ROAD
The main road out of Gosport starting by the former railway station (now being restored as part of a housing development) is signed at the corner with Spring Garden Lane on the side of The Railway Inn.
| COOMBE ROAD
Off Melville Road towards Elson. A cast iron plate.
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ALEXANDRA STREET
South off Forton Road near the Lidl store.
| DURHAM STREET
Off Forton Road leading down to allotments. The corner building here might have been a pub or shop.
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LEES LANE NORTH
 Buses enter Forton Road here behind the Criterion Bingo hall (former early cinema). Gosport's first mayor in 1922 was one Jesse F Lee but this name predates him.
| LEESLAND ROAD
The Junction Tavern on this corner of Whitworth Road stands by the footpath and cycle track that follows the old railway line.
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STATION ROAD
Affixed to the Queen's Head pub on Brockhurst Road but no longer leading to any station. There is a connection to the cycle path on the old railway line. Provided by Google.
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NORMAN ROAD
A short street of typical 19th century terraced housing.
| WILMOTT LANE
Wilmott Lane off Anns Hill Road runs along the length of the cemetery and pointing west to Fort Grange (one of Palmerston's follies) on Military Road used to lead to Wilmot's cottage.
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WESTFIELD ROAD
 Off Anns Hill Road, this leads into the council works depot once a Destructor and Air Compressing Station.
| JESSIE ROAD
Lost in a grid of side streets Jessie Road links Carnarvon Road down to Richmond Road passing by Tintern Road.
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ANNS HILL ROAD
The Wiltshire Lamb - a landmark pub - boarded up and awaiting the developers. Anns Hill is one of the oldest obscure names in Gosport. Will the old ceramic street name lettering be preserved? See Privett Road.
| TINTERN ROAD (2)
The west end of Tintern Road.
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ZETLAND ROAD
Zodiac florists on Whitworth Road brighten the corner at Zetland Road. The door posts remain from The Whitworth Arms pub.
(The oldest surviving lifeboat in the world is called Zetland and can be seen in the Redcar RNLI museum, North Yorkshire.)
| CARLYLE ROAD
At the top of Whitworth Road this road borders the railway footpath and faces the Sanderson Centre a thriving business community, formerly a wallpaper factory.
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PERCY ROAD
Part of a large scale development of 19th century housing between the railway line and Stoke Road. This sign needs a lick of paint.
| PERCY ROAD (2)
The ceramic version at the Elmhurst Road end is easy to see.
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ELMHURST ROAD
 With terraced houses to the north and grander Edwardian huses to the south, Elmhurst Road also contains a Business Park of garages in the old co-op dairy yard.
| KINGS ROADKings Road was built in a great crescent below the curve of the former railway line leading down to Stokes Bay.
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SYDNEY ROAD
This road links Kings Road across to Queens Road.
| BLAKE ROAD
A road running north-south in the same area.
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QUEENS ROAD
Thanks to Google for this one.
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KINGS ROAD (2)
The Victorian Queens Hotel pub stands on the corner with Queens Road.
| EDWARDS PLACE 1860
 This place name carved in stone can be found at the top end of Mill Lane, north of Forton Road. There was a mill and a mill pond at one time. |
GLADSTONE ROAD
Dropping south off Avery Lane, Gladstone Road is a short dead-end.
| HAMBROOK ROAD
A road no longer than 150 metres tucked between Brougham Street and St Ann's Crescent.
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BROUGHAM STREET
The Barley Mow pub on the corner of Anns Hill Road and Brougham Street hints at the rural quality of Brockhurst Road just to the north.
| HARTINGTON ROAD
Hartington Road splits off Cambridge Road at its top end close to Brockhurst Road.
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PRIVETT ROAD
The sorry Wiltshire Lamb standing at an important junction proudly boasts another street name apart from Ann Hills Road. Privett Road heads west towards Lee-on-the-Solent from the War Memorial Hospital. (See also ANNS HILL ROAD above.)
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This pub including its car park has been fully developed into numerous flats with a low passage into a courtyard. While it looks cleaned up, the old street signs thankfully remain.
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ST THOMAS ROAD
 Two signs I missed before on a thriving corner pub on a bus route. The Windsor Castle like the Lamb has two street names. | GROVE ROAD
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