Chidham

Lying east of Southbourne and Emsworth and SE of Westbourne, Chidham Parish is three distinct villages within a beautiful coastal with the environment and a supportive community at its heart. Chidham is famous for the cultivation of high yield ‘Chiddham Wheat’ from 1790 offering better quality flour than its rivals.

Follow the 3km mobile QR code trail and Google map to discover the heritage of Chidham, Hambrook and Nutbourne and its historical buildings, with a pub at each end of the trail.

Did you know?

Chidham’s name comes from the peninsula shape that extends into Chichester Harbour. The Old English word for a bag or pouch is ‘ceod’ and ‘ham’ is a settlement. Ham at the start of a place name means a rock, so Hambrook is named as the place where a spring gushes from a rock.

There is Chidham village in the south, Nutbourne East in the middle and Hambrook to the north. Like today, climate change had its effects on the coast and, in 1291, the Parishes of Chidham and Thorney each lost 40 acres of arable and meadowland due to encroachment of the sea.

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