Landport Commercial Road, which was the birthplace of English novelist Charles Dickens born February 7th, 1812. His former home is now the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Buckland. The area is home to St Agatha's church which was originally constructed under the then mission incumbent Robert William Radclyffe Dolling. Landport Landport is a district located near the centre of Portsea Island and is part of the city of Portsmouth, England. The district contains the main shopping area for Portsmouth. Before World War II the district was also a residential area, mainly catering for employees of the naval dockyard and their families.
Portsmouth for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur team not to be confused with the later professional Portsmouth Football Club. Rudyard Kipling, poet and author of the "Jungle Book", and H. G. Wells, author of "War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine", lived in Portsmouth during the 1880s. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian, was born in Portsmouth, writing one novel set exclusively in the town, "By Celia's Arbour, A Tale of Portsmouth Town". Historian Frances Yates was born in Portsmouth and is known for her work on Renaissance esotericism. Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived