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Car Leasing Deals Portsmouth
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Portsmouth Leasing Did You Know?The city appears on the oldest surviving route map of Britain, thought to be from around 1360. The map shows six-hundred towns and cities. Portsmouth is named as ‘Portis Mouth’ and has the image of a single red-bricked-roofed building thought to be related to near-by Fareham. In 1180, a wealthy Norman merchant, Jean de Gisors, purchased the Manor of Buckland on Portsea Island. Noticing that a sheltered inlet on the island offered refuge for ships, he founded a small town here. In 1194, Portsmouth was granted a Royal Charter. Our south coastal paradise isn’t the only place in the world to be labelled ‘Portsmouth’. In fact there are said to be at least seven other cities with the same name, all can be found in the United States. Portland, Ohio, New Hampshire, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia and Rhode Island. Portsmouth Harbour is the largest fruit-handling ports in the country and processes: 100% of the UK’s Jersey potatoes; 70% of the UK’s bananas and 100% of the UK’s Moroccan citrus fruits. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California and ‘Terminator’, once lived in Portsmouth and was a member of a Southsea gym in the 1960s. Other literary greats have also spent their time in Portsmouth including Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, even practiced as a doctor in Southsea and wrote fiction while waiting for patients. In fact Doyle’s medical colleague was named Dr. Watson! It is 9,366 miles from Portsmouth to Uluru, the massive sandstone rock in central Australia that used to be known as Ayer’s Rock. It was named after Sir Henry Ayers who was born in Portsea in 1821, the son of a dockyard worker, and who was the premier of South Australia five times. The Gosport Ferry has existed for centuries and back in 1809 the boat used was a double-ended rowing boat named a ‘Wherry’. This is in stark contrast to the large ferry boats which carry 297 passengers between Gosport and Portsmouth today.
THE PORTSMOUTH CAR LEASING SPECIALIST Smart Lease is a trading name of Leaseline Vehicle Management Ltd. We reserve the right to withdraw any offer, service or price without notice. Errors and omissions excepted. |
