One of the worlds leading yacht builders Moodys has a marina in Swanwick. And The Bursledon Brickworks can be found within Sarisbury. The Brickworks was founded by the Ashby family in 1897 to replace an earlier works that they owned at Chandlers Ford. The works rapidly developed and a second works was built in 1903 where the new Civil Aviation Authority Centre has been built.

Just before the outbreak of WWII further kilns and drying sheds were build and production peaked at around 20 million bricks per year and 180 men were employed. An amalgamation with Redland Brick and Tile Co (Later Redlands plc) went ahead in 1959 and in 1974 the works closed, but in 1990 Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust purchased the site and began a restoration programme which has been funded so far by a generous gift from Redlans plc and from Hampshire County Council.

Sarisbury and Swanwick constitute an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1837 from the civil parish of Titchfield, and in Dec. 1894, made a separate civil parish, and hare a station at Swanwick on the Netley and Fareham branch of the South 'Western railway, about 3 miles north-west from Titchfield and 5 northwest from Fareham. The parish is on the east bank of the river Hamble, in the Southern division of the county, Fareham petty sessional division and union, Portsmouth
county court district, and in the rural deanery of Alverstoke, and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester.

The church of St. Paul, erected in 1836, and partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1888 at. a cost of £1,300, is an edifice of brick and stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, with organ chamber and vestry, nave, transepts, and a western (over containing a clock and one bell: there are several stained windows, including one in the chancel, erected in 1881 at a cost of £129: the church affords 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1837.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value at £280 with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Titchfield, a held since 1893 by the rev. Frederick William Person
A.K.C.L. The Free church, an iron structure, was erected in 1880-1; there is also a Baptist chapel, erected in 1811. The Reading room was built by Admiral Maxse in 1870, and is managed by a local committee; it is open in the evening daring the -winter month. Sarisbury Court is the seat of Capt. Sir Edward Walter K.O.B. and stands in a well-wooded park of 180 acres; the grounds are beautifully laid out in walks and flower gardens and run down to the river Hamble, affording great facility for yachting; Brooklands, the seat of Lieut.-Col. William. Babington J.P. is on the banks of the Hamble, in a well-wooded park of 40 acres;

The United Reform Church		The War Memorial
A summers evening on Sarisbury Green		St Paul's Church Sarisbur

The Church Rooms		The old schoolhouse

Nearly all the residents cultivate strawberries, the produce being principally sent to Covent Garden market. The soil is gravel; subsoil, sand; rateable value, .£9,147; the population in 3891 was 1,301.

Parish Clerk: Phillip Harding.

National School (mixed), Sarisbury, built in 1839, enlarged in 1846, & again in 1874 & 1894, by N. Montefiore esq. & will hold 130 children; average attendance, 148; George Parker, master
Infants School, built for 90 children; average attendance, 60; Miss Lawton, infants' mistress
Police Station, William Charles Paddock, constable
Swanwick Railway Station, Edward Skilton, station master

SWANICK STRAWBERRIES
ST PAULS CHURCH

Text above from Kellys Directory of Hampshire 1899.