Gosport

Gosport ('God's port'), a market-town and seaport of England, in the county of Hants, stands on the western shore of Portsmouth harbour, and directly opposite Portsmouth, with which it is connected by a floating bridge. Here are an extensive iron-foundry for the manufacture of anchors and chain-cables, naval powder-magazines, several barracks, the Royal Clarence victualling yard, which contains a brewery, a biscuit-baking establishment worked entirely by steam, and numerous storehouses, and Haslar Hospital (q.v.). The town has also some sail-making and yacht-building, and considerable coasting trade. Pop. (1851) 7414; (1891, with Alverstoke) 25,452.