Watercress is popular in salads and grown on a wide scale. In the wild it grows in shallow, fast-flowing streams and is an indicator of clean water. Watercress is a hardy, perennial, European herb (Nasturtium officinale) which grows naturally in wet soil along and in spring brooks, ditches and pond margins and is cultivated for …
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Drift Lane
Drovers’ roads or droveways date back to medieval times. They are routes used for ‘driving’ livestock on foot from one place to another, so the animals can graze. Drift Lane on the Eastern side of Chidham and Hambrook Parish was such a droveway. It was used to drive cattle and sheep from the Chidham peninsula …
Christmas Cottage
On the corner of Chidham Lane and Main Road and almost hidden is Christmas Cottage, a Grade II listed building dating from the early 1700s. Grid Ref: SU7923705334 Up until 1950 this architectural gem was known as Arched Cottage rather than Christmas Cottage, but no-one knows why it was renamed. Constructed in red brick it …
Chidham Village Hall
The building known as Chidham Village Hall was built as a ‘floor-malting’ malthouse and was part of a larger complex which included a well, pump house, granary and cottage. Did you know? Malt is grain that has been artificially germinated, with the germination process stopped at a critical point by kiln drying. The most common …