After the USA entered the First World War in 1917 there was an immediate need for Training Depot Stations on the South coast to train United States Army Air Service personnel. Whilst most people are aware that there was once a large military airfield at Tangmere, with its own excellent museum, few know there was …
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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 …