Tournerbury Lane 1840

I have been doing some research about Tournerbury Lane. There are still a lot of gaps but this is what I know so far about Tournebury Lane, Hayling Island in 1840.

Tournerbury Lane was sparsely populated.

The lane had fields edged with trees and ditches on both sides with a small copse half way along on the northern side (1)

At Gable head William Pannell lived and worked as a blacksmith accompanied by his two sons Joseph and William. Once past the smithy there were a few houses/cottages noted in the 1841 census (2) .

There ae agricultural labourers: Joseph Clarke and his family, Richard Kewell, and William Phillips and family.There is also a carpenter John Duffell and family .

Past the copse, through Tournerbury woods The Derben family worked a brick makers . They lived in Tournerbury Lane and they set up their brick works with kilns near the Creeks edge .In this part of Hayling there is London clay, yellow in colour but fires to a brick red. (1)

Bibliography

1. forum, Hayling history and Heritage. History and heritage forum. Hayling .co.uk. [Online] December 2010. www.hayling.co.uk.

2. archive, national. 1841 census Hampshire > South Hayling > District 7 . 1841.