This suburb is well placed for waterfront leisure activities, only a short distance from the UK's 3rd-largest marina at Port Solent, from the historic city of Portsmouth, and from the market town of Fareham.

It is owned by a Joint Committee representing the City of Portsmouth and the Boroughs of Fareham, Havant and Gosport.

[19] Those cremated there include two World War I Victoria Cross recipients, Norman Augustus Finch and James Ockendon who both died in 1966.

Services run along the coast to Southampton, Fareham, Portsmouth, Havant, Chichester and Brighton.

First Hampshire & Dorset services to Portsmouth, Havant, Fareham, Titchfield, Locks Heath and Warsash.