Download the trail guide PDF here Navigate via page links below Stansted Park The area now known as Stansted Park is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was included in the ‘Hundred of Bourne’. Did you know? The Hundred was a unit of English local government and taxation, intermediate between village and shire, …
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Tin Tabernacle Church
The building on Thorney Road is a significant link to the spiritual history of the Parish, known locally as the Pentecostal Mission. This tin tabernacle church, also known as an iron church, is a type of prefabricated ecclesiastical building made from corrugated galvanised iron. They were developed in response to the needs of residents for …
Cross Kitchen
This famous Emsworth landmark actually started its life as a church. In the 18th century most Emsworth residents went to church but, with a growing population, there wasn’t much room and only the rich could afford to buy or rent their own church pew. If you were poorer you weren’t allowed in these pews, so …
St John the Baptist
As you cross the gentle River Ems into West Sussex and Westbourne, the first building you see is the church of St John the Baptist, which dates from at least the early 13th century. Other evidence also suggests that a church could have been on this site as early as the 11th century. When a …