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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Sailing is possible at all stages of the tide and times of year. The first Regatta was held in 1922, with a number of entries from Bosham, Emsworth, Langstone, Itchenor and Portsmouth. In addition to sailing, the Regatta programme of 1922 included rowing and swimming races, pillow fights on a pole slung between two barges, and concluded with a ...
Tidal range is the difference in height between high tide and low tide. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and Sun, by Earth's rotation and by centrifugal force caused by Earth's progression around the Earth-Moon barycenter. Tidal range depends on time and location.
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 ...
The clock of 1667 at Fécamp Abbey shows the time of local high tide, and the present state of the sea by means of a disc with a quarter-circle aperture which rotates with the lunar phase, revealing a green background at the syzygies (at new moon and full moon), when the tidal range is most extreme ("spring tides"), and a black background at ...
West Hayling is a 76.2-hectare (188-acre) Local Nature Reserve on Hayling Island in Hampshire. It is owned by Havant Borough Council and managed by the council and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. [1] [2] It is part of Langstone Harbour, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.