Midhurst Footpath Companions
Walking in Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey.

Chidham and Prinsted Day Walk 29th August 2018

Jennifer led from Prinsted car park around the Chidham peninsula and back to The Old House at Home for lunch. The walk was totally hill free and the weather was excellent for this seaside walk. The rotting posts we saw going out to sea at Chidham point turned out to be the remains of a failed bid in 1870 by farmers seeking to increase their land. They thought that by damming up the whole of the Thorney Channel from Chidham to Thorney Island with  over 3,000 posts and thousands of tons of  Petersfield chalk, they could silt up the entire Thorney Channel. Mother nature took little notice and within 7 weeks had breached the dam and the sea has continued to use the channel unhindered ever since.   After a very good lunch we took the short route back to the Prinsted car park. On the way back we noticed two light aircraft flying in formation. It turns out they were Slingsby T67 ex-military trainers from Power Aerobatics at Goodwood - you can have a ride in one for a mere £299.   The distance covered was a little over 7.1/2 miles.

Old House at Home

Setting out from Prinsted

Coffee stop

Is it a dragon?

Sloes are looking healthy this year

Old attempt to dam the Thorney Channel

Posing on the seashore

Slingsby Trainers.

Oh no, more walkers in my way!

Seaside walking

Outside the bird hide at Chidham Point

Returning to Prinsted

7.1/2 miles.

Strolling along the Bosham Channel

Snapper snapped

Egret looking for lunch

Recent galleries

History

2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
1997