Big Facts on Hayling
The town of Hayling Island contains the villages of East and West Hayling and lies within the Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire area.
Hayling Island offers plenty of opportunities to make the most of your leisure time having pubs, restaurants, amusements, bingo, a funfair and snooker clubs as well as offering many sporting activities such as swimming, sailing, windsurfing, golf, squash, tennis, sea fishing, riding and walking.
Hayling Island is very flat, and often threatened with flooding from the sea.
Salt production was an industry on the island from the 11th century (the Domesday Book recorded a saltpan on the island for this purpose) until the late 19th century. At the northwest corner of the island lies the Hayling Oysterbeds Local Nature Reserve.
Hayling Island is easily accessible from most areas and just an hour and 15min from London.
The Island is also said to be one of the optimum Wind Surfing areas on the South Coast.
In the 1830s a guide to Hayling said ’such is the health of this sweet island that although a medical man resides here, his services are seldom in request’.
Destination Hayling Island will see the refurbishment of the whole seafront, centered on the creation of a new landmark conceptual “modern pier” building, which will be the centerpiece of a re-invigorated seafront.
If you could make the decision to take a holiday and come to Hayling island then a special place to stay would be Cockle Warren Cottage Hotel – it is exactly on the beach and you will be enfolded in the enamor of the cottage with the warm sea snap rapping on your bedchamber windowpane.
