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hannahfluck.bsky.social
@chichesterharbour have kept this quiet!
hannahfluck.bsky.social Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · Oct 28
Today I found an Ent
An oak tree with two trunks like legs that grow together about halfway up before branching out into outstretched arms.
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
picturepostsouth.bsky.social
Birch Copse, Itchenor to West Wittering Coastal Path, West Sussex, England.

#photography #coastline #coast #wild #nature #coastalpath #copse #itchenor #westwittering #westsussex #walk #chichesterharbour d4282cnat
April 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
samphire-hoe.bsky.social
#Bosham #ChichesterHarbour Accurate
November 28, 2024 at 11:35 PM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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.
April 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
samphire-hoe.bsky.social
#Bosham #WestSussex #ChichesterHarbour #BritishCoast #coast
November 2, 2024 at 4:35 PM
tezzermelad.bsky.social
No campervan road trip is complete without a 2 day old foal getting in on the act. #chichesterharbour
May 31, 2026 at 5:26 PM
birderstuart.bsky.social
It was cloudy but very mild, and the sky put on a little show at the end of the afternoon. A nice couple of hours doing Low Tide Counts for @webs-gsmp.bsky.social in #ChichesterHarbour.
In the background is an orange sky with dark clouds, over a muddy estuary. There are yellow flowers on the foreground.
January 17, 2026 at 9:51 PM
drianfriel.bsky.social
#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).
Tree routes with what looks orange clay mixed in among them. A fragment of a Roman tile among the tree roots.
April 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
drianfriel.bsky.social
#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).
The hill on the left-hand side of the photo is the Trundle, which is topped by a large Iron Age hillfort, but was also the site of a Neolithic enclosure. The white feature to the right of the Trundle is the viewing stand at Goodwood Racecourse. The quay in the middle ground is Dell Quay, formerly the only legal quay for foreign trade in Chichester Harbour, and once the de facto port of the city of Chichester.
April 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
guildford.bsky.social
High tide proof doorstep in Bosham, West Sussex.

Somme Cottage, August 2017

#Door
#Fishing
#Sea
#Photography
#SamsungG900
#ChichesterHarbour
#Sussex
#WestSussex
#England
Bright red door with small square window and black letterbox and door handle. There are two steps that raise the entry and shorten the door. This has to be both stepped over and duck at the same time. The village is renowned for high tides that come right into the streets.
May 17, 2026 at 7:59 AM
drianfriel.bsky.social
#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.
Trees Wirth exposed roots on the shore of Chichester Harbour. A scatter of red clay is visible amid the screen of the seaweed. Fragments of Roman tile from the adjacent Roman tilery site, tangled up in the tree roots, Chichester Harbour.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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...
Oysters scrubbed before Chichester Harbour water quality project
The oysters are cleaned to make sure they do not pollute waters for its existing population.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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
April 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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!
May 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
sussexifca.bsky.social
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
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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
The site of Chitty and Vernon's former 1740s shipyard at Itchenor on Chichester Harbour. Nothing of the yard is now visible, but it lay between the house on the left and the laid-up yachts in the distance. The yard had at least two launching slips.
July 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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!
A series of low banks running across a small bay near Prinsted (Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, UK. At first sight it looks like the remains of a causeway, but the line is broken in places, and the banks may have been used to give some protection to manmade oyster ponds that once existed here. The Harbour once had a thriving oyster fishery, and there were many oyster ponds. These were used to keep oysters alive after they had been dredged from the seabed. The ponds were very shallow, and this made it easier to collect the shellfish when they were being sent to market.
February 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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).
Trees in Salterns Copse, Chichester Harbour. The name 'Salterns' comes from the 18th/19th-century saltworks that once stood on the site now occupied by Chichester Marina. The old saltworks, Copperas Point and Birdham Mill (L-shaped building marked 'Mill') on Yeakell and Gardener's 1778-1783 map of Sussex. The main Harbour channel can be seen towards the top left. Salterns Copse is between the Salterns and Copperas Point. Aerial view of Chichester Marina from the east, 2011. The outline of the Marina preserves the boundaries of the old saltworks, and Salterns Copse is the triangular wood to the right of it (photo copyright Ian Friel 2011).
April 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
elmerpalace.bsky.social
More than 100 chemicals polluting South harbours - study

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

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 100 chemicals polluting South harbours - study
The studies looked at samples from Langstone and Chichester Harbours in spring and autumn 2022.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
sussexifca.bsky.social
Students from Sparsholt College joined Sussex IFCA Officers for a #smallfishsurvey at East Head.

Using a seine net, they learned fish monitoring techniques, catching Golden grey mullet and juvenile Brown trout.
#sussex_ifca #Chichesterharbour #fishsurvey #sussex
March 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
drianfriel.bsky.social
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.
A view along the canal, with modern houseboats on the right. Part of the stonework of the lock structure is visible lower left.
April 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
russeyboy.bsky.social
Bobbing along with the Sea Gods at Chichester harbour. #kyaking #paddal #chichesterharbour
April 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM