| Drayton & Farlington |
| Farlington and Drayton are large built up areas
just and originally were small hamlets that has gradually been
encroached by the spread of Portsmouth. Both Drayton and Farlington had
their own manors houses at the start of the 1900s and the church of St
Andrews once served the people of Purbrook who came to worship there
until they had their own church built in the 19th century. Their used to
be a chapel at Drayton but in the 1930s this had been replaced by a fine
new church. Being close to Portsmouth and its Royal Naval Dockyard it is not unusual that the people here had a close link with the Navy and a large housing development began on Portsdown Hill near to Fort Purbrook which was one of the last castles ever built in Britain. Over the centuries great changes have taken place but at the start of the 20th century transport become better and people began to move out from the city to what is now the suburbs and new roads and houses were built on the glebe. Buses started to run further afield, to places such as Brighton and Southampton and the Chichester Motor which was a small train stopped at Farlington Halt en route to Portsmouth. The marshes near to the hamlets are now part of the
Hampshire Wildlife Park and small animals such as foxes can be seen even
in local gardens and there are quite a few sea birds to be seen |
