And it is packed full of interesting facts to be discovered.
In 2012 Portsmouth historian John Sadden wrote Portsmouth – A Pocket Miscellany - a book crammed with curious historical facts.
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So we have pulled together a list of facts you might not know about our city.
Make sure to click through all the pages!
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