In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Emsworth like this:
EMSWORTH, a village and a chapelry in Warblington parish, Hants. The village stands on the Emsworth channel of Chichester harbour, adjacent to the South Coast railway, and to the boundary with Sussex, opposite Thorney island, 2 miles ESE of Havant; has a station on the railway with telegraph, a head post office, ‡ and fairs on Easter Monday and 18 July; is a sub-port to Chichester; carries on a noted fishery of oysters, which abound in Emsworth channel; and has some trade in coasting-commerce, ship-building, rope-making, and bri-making. ...
A fine silt abounds in the adjacent waters, and is mixed with clay for bricks; very large fig-trees flourish in the gardens; and a swan was caught here, in 1739, with the Danish arms on a collar. The chapelry includes the village, and was constituted in 1841. Pop., 1, 655. Houses, 365. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rector of Warblington. The church was built in 1840, and twice enlarged. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists. Works were in progress, in 1865, for reclaiming 2, 000 acres of foreshore.
Emsworth through time
Emsworth is now part of Havant district. Click here for graphs and data of how Havant has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Emsworth itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Emsworth, in Havant and Hampshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20912
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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