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Hayling Island between Selsey Bill and Portsea Island, seen from the west, with north to the left. An Iron Age shrine in the north of Hayling Island, later developed into a Roman temple in the 1st century BC, was first recorded in Richard Scott's Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island (1826). The site was dug between 1897 and ...
Langeneß (or Langeness) includes a former island by that same name, and two others that were called Nordmarsch and Butwehl. Dwellings and commercial buildings are built upon metre-high, man-made mounds, called Warften in German or Værft in Danish, to guard against storm tides. Some halligen also have overflow dikes.
Gutner Point is a 69-hectare (170-acre) Local Nature Reserve on Hayling Island in Hampshire, England. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire Countryside Service. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of Chichester and Langstone Harbours Ramsar site [ 3 ] and Special Protection Area , [ 4 ] of Solent Maritime Special Area of ...
The Kench, Hayling Island is a 6-hectare (15-acre) Local Nature Reserve on Hayling Island in Hampshire. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire Countryside Service. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of Chichester and Langstone Harbours Ramsar site [ 3 ] and Special Protection Area , [ 4 ] Solent Maritime Special Area of ...
In Portsmouth, the high tides led to waves crashing over the sea wall near Clarence Pier, flooding the Old Portsmouth, Spice Island and Gunwharf areas. [24] Two people were rescued by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service on Hayling Island after 3 ft (0.91 m) high waters submerged their vehicles. [25]
Entrance to Langstone Harbour. Langstone Harbour is a 2,085.4-hectare (5,153-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire.It is an inlet of the English Channel in Hampshire, sandwiched between Portsea Island to the south and west, Hayling Island to the south and east, and Langstone to the north.
The Ferry Point is at the westernmost tip of Hayling Island in Hampshire, England, overlooking the fast tides of Langstone Harbour entrance. It was previously known as Sinah Point. [4] The current at the Ferry Point is extremely treacherous and has claimed many lives over the years. [5]
There is an old report that this church was formerly in the middle of Hayling Island. If similar amounts of land have been lost on other parts of the Solent shore, the Solent was likely to have been much narrower in Roman times, and it is possible to believe Diodorus Siculus's report that in his time men could wade to the Isle of Wight at low tide.