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This branch is proposed for closure in January 2008 – the same fate that befell its erstwhile nearest neighbour, Sarisbury Green Post Office a short distance southeast (and still marked with a P on the map).
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>Hotel, restaurant and bar hosting regular live music.
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built 1844. The chapel stands on the junction of Quay Lane and Bridge Road in the Swanwick Shore conservation area. See also: [[1436475]] and [[1436481]].
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Did the stone mason miss out the 'H' in the word 'Chapel'? Whole building - [[1436468]].
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The chapel was built in 1844. Whole building - [[1436468]].
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The road is Swanwick Shore Road. The house is Hard Cottage, which is dated 1760. The gravel area is a public hard close to the shore of the River Hamble
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The area on the right is Swanwick Shore conservation area, which includes many listed buildings. "Swanwick Shore occupies a bend on the eastern side of the River Hamble. The Conservation Area comprises the group of buildings, public hard and river frontage that form the village settlement at Lower Swanwick. The hard and river frontage is situated on low lying ground south of Bridge Road, close to the Bursledon Bridge". (Conservation Area Character Assessment - Fareham Borough Council - http://www.fareham.gov.uk/council/departments/planning/character/083-98Swanwick.pdf ).
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.2km<br/>On River Hamble at Bursledon Bridge. Seen from the bridge.
©Peter Facey
Dist:0.2km<br/>The sign asks boat owners not to obstruct the hard with boat trailers - it looks like the boats themselves are causing enough of an obstruction...
©Richard Dorrell
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.3km<br/>There are several very old buildings in this area, which has been a centre for boat building for centuries.
©Richard Dorrell
Dist:0.3km<br/>I suspect that these rowing tenders don't need an anchor this size.
©Colin Babb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Now surrounded by marinas, boat related industries and the A27 - they look like they were built when the area was less developed.
©Hugh Venables
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Hamble is considerably narrowed here due to the moorings extending from left and right banks, leaving this narrow central channel for navigation. The railway bridge is beyond.
©Peter Facey
Dist:0.3km<br/>The bridge carries the A27 (Bridge Road) over the River Hamble. The plaque reads COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON This bridge was erected by the COUNTY COUNCIL with the aid of contributions from THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT 1933-35 ENGINEER A. C. Hughes, County Surveyor CONTRACTORS Peter Lind & Co, Westminster Southampton is of course within the county of Hampshire but in 1997 it became a unitary authority and thus is an administrative county. I was not aware that Southampton was also a county in 1933.
©Peter Facey

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