Beautiful Bosham

Bosham, pronounced Bozam, is the lovely Sussex coastal village whose harbour and creek form part of Chichester Harbour. It has featured before in Blip and will again, I've been coming here for 40 years and love it. The site has been occupied from Roman times, through Anglo-Saxon and Norman eras, and has a place in the Domesday book [1086] when it was listed as one of the wealthiest manors in England, and in the Bayeux Tapestry which features the 1064 meeting of Harold II and Edward the Confessor on their way to meet William the Conqueror to discuss who would ascend the throne after Edward.

Bosham is now in two parts, Old and New, so there is a range of houses and facilities. The most famous are the Church where tradition has it that King Canute's young daughter is buried, and the renowned Sailing Club, formed in 1907 and beyond the likes of you and me. But for me, walking round the harbour is the one of the most delightful ways I know of spending a sunny hour.

Today it was strangely quiet on a crisp sunny afternoon. Lifts the spirits to sit with a pot of tea, good company, and a scone, and watch the sun go down.

This guy obligingly posed at the water's edge, though he's not with me.