What Once Was

Langstone Harbour cuts in to Hayling Island at it’s westerly edge before looping back to form the harbour entrance out to the Solent. This area of mudflats running parallel with Ferry Road and then up the western edge to the Billy is called The Kench. Back in the 50s during a housing shortage surplus military boats were converted to accommodation and landed on The Kench and some of those remain to this day. As well as the house boats the mudflats are also home to the remains of wooden piers and other, unknown, structures.