Sussex IFCA Officers have installed new #HandGatheringByelaw signs in #Chichesterharbour. The byelaw sets bag limits, permit requirements, and added MPA protections to support sustainable use of intertidal habitats within the #Sussex district.

sussex-ifca.gov.uk/regulations

#RomanSiteSaturday I've posted these before, but they're maybe worth another outing. Nothing obviously Roman here at first sight, on the foreshore of #ChichesterHarbour. However, tangled up among the tree roots are lumps of Roman tile, from an adjacent tilery site.

@chichesterharbour have kept this quiet!

HMS Hind was built at Itchenor on #ChichesterHarbour, W Sussex, one of 4 warships constructed in the 1740s by Chitty & Vernon. Nothing of the yard is now visible, but it lay between the house & yachts. It was used intermittently until early 1800s & in 1780s built 2 huge Eastindiamen #MaritimeHistory

Is there any data on escape attempts by French PoWs in England during the 1793-1815? Came across a Dec 1809 case where 9 of them drilled a hole in a Portsmouth prison hulk, stole 1 boat, got driven ashore, then 5 stole a boat at Emsworth, #ChichesterHarbour, got lost & were recaptured at Itchenor!

Birch Copse, Itchenor to West Wittering Coastal Path, West Sussex, England.

#photography #coastline #coast #wild #nature #coastalpath #copse #itchenor #westwittering #westsussex #walk #chichesterharbour d4282cnat

Bobbing along with the Sea Gods at Chichester harbour. #kyaking #paddal #chichesterharbour

Sorry- photos were taken in 2007, as was this one of Salterns Copse! I still live locally tho', & continue to be fascinated by the history of #ChichesterHarbour. According to a mid-C19 source, smugglers used to hide goods in the Copse. 'Salterns' refers to the nearby old saltworks (now the Marina).

Great image! The Coastguard also used old warships - eg 1831 to c1856 gunbrig HMS Griper (went to the Arctic 1823/24) moored at the mouth of #ChichesterHarbour 1841: ship was home to 50+ people- Coastguards & wives & children #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory CG combatted smuggling & undertook rescues

#TilesOnTuesday The orange stuff tangled in the tree routes on the foreshore in #ChichesterHarbour (West Sussex, UK) near Dell Quay comes from eroded Roman tile wasters, discarded from an adjacent Roman tileworks (partly excavated, but exact date uncertain).

There's evidence that oysters cultivated in #ChichesterHarbour were being consumed @romanpalace.bsky.social at Fishbourne in the Roman period, I believe. The oysters in the photo are not from the Roman era, but probably came from 19th-cent oyster ponds in the Harbour at nearby Bosham.

More than 100 chemicals polluting South harbours - study

#Hampshire #WestSussex #Study #SewageSpills #LangstoneHarbour #ChichesterHarbour #ChemicalPollution #BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

View looking along #Chichester Canal, from Salterns Lock, where it enters #ChichesterHarbour. Just under 4 miles long, opened in 1822 & saw its last commercial cargo in 1906. Partly navigable now from Chichester end, but this part is home to houseboats, moorhen & swans.

#HillfortsWednesday The hill dominating the left of this photo is the Trundle, the #SouthDowns site of an Iron Age hillfort overlooking the coastal plain and #ChichesterHarbour, where this photo was taken. Dell Quay is in the middle ground (photo taken in 2007).

Great to see this initiative to revive the oyster population in #ChichesterHarbour. I wrote a study of the local oyster fishery's history in 2020 for Sussex IFCA - pdf available for anyone interested - a story of enterprise, environmental damage & class conflict!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Series of banks across a small bay near Prinsted on #ChichesterHarbour (West Sussex, UK), seen today. May not look much, but were apparently built between about 1780 and 1840. Possibly used to shelter oyster ponds that once existed photo R. Harbour's full of interesting historical puzzles!

#Bosham #ChichesterHarbour Accurate

#Bosham #WestSussex #ChichesterHarbour #BritishCoast #coast