Lepe, Hampshire - Beach - Dixon postcard c.1970s

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Lepe Beach, Hampshire
• Publisher: Lepe Bay, Restaurant / J Arthur Dixon (L6/SP 5987)
• Postally used: no - has some notes but not posted
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to: n/a
• Notes / condition: 

Please ask if you need any other information and I will do the best I can to answer.

Image may be low res for illustrative purposes - if you need a higher definition image then please contact me and I may be able to send one. No cards have been trimmed (unless stated).

------------------------------------------------

Postage & Packing:

Postage and packing charge should be showing for your location (contact if not sure).

No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. Please wait for combined invoice. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).

Payment Methods:

UK and all other locations - PayPal or other methods listed above.

NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. 

I will give a full refund if you are not fully satisfied with the postcard.

----------------------------------------------

Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

*************

Lepe is a linear hamlet on the Solent in south-west Hampshire, England. In the civil parish of Exbury and Lepe, It is beside the Dark Water, and has Lepe Country Park, which runs from Stanswood Bay to the mouth of the Beaulieu River.

Lepe is a hamlet on north-west shore of the Solent. It is part of the civil parish of Exbury and Lepe, which in turn is part of the New Forest district of Hampshire.[2] That parish (with minor powers) is emulated in the Church of England which maintains one church, as since early medieval times, at Exbury.[3] The east side is Lepe Country Park, with a mile of beach, pine-fringed cliffs, Operation Overlord remains (see below), year-round café-and-shop, and wild flower meadows;[4][5]

From the cliffs above the beach, part of the view of the Western Solent is used by Solent Rescue Independent Lifeboat station. Inchmery Quay lies to the west.

History

Lepe may have been a port of Roman times due to an apparent route of a Roman road, down the eastern side of the New Forest, from Shorn Hill, Totton to Lepe.[6]

Lepe is first recorded in the 13th century.[7] The name may refer to a human leap over the Dark Water.[7] For the centuries when manorial rights were the parent form of estate in most land, it was long part of Exbury manor, which in latter decades was frequently called the "manor of Exbury and Lepe."[8]

Oral history ascribes a populous seaside hamlet to Lepe washed away by a great storm before the early 1700s; a ruined harbour, Stone Point, is spoken of.[9] Old maps shows the Dark Water mouth was more easterly, near Stone Point.[10] An estate map of 1640 shows a tidal mill there, and the tidal pond is still identifiable.[11] The change may have been from the Great Storm of 1703 when the south coast of England was ravaged for five days.[10]

Lepe harbour survived, and in 1744 shipbuilder Moody Janverin was asked by the Admiralty to create a shipyard there.[12] Among ships built there were:

HMS Greenwich (1747)

HMS Fowey (1749)

HMS Europa (1765).[12]

It had silted up by 1825.[13]

Around this time Lepe was involved in the oyster trade, large heaps being stacked here to purify.[8] A wooden quay was built at Lepe to serve the local brickyards until the coastal trade dropped given the advent of railways.[14] A Lepe coastguard station to combat west Solent smuggling.[12] Completed in 1828, the Coastguard Cottages and the Watch House remain largely unchanged today.[12]

In the 18th century, Lepe House was an inn, The Ship Inn.[12] It was later enlarged and beautified to become a grand country house.[8] In 1943, it was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, hosting the J.1 Assault Group for the D-Day landings to restore Normandy to free French rule in June 1944.[15]

Localised flooding has occurred in 2004, 2005 and in 2014.