1. Emsworth is home to The Emsworth Food Festival, the largest independent Food Festival in the UK with 50,000 visitors in 2005

2. The  Zen Furniture Work Shop - located off West Street produces furniture  with an emphasis on simplicity of design  in sympathy with wood, employing its natural warmth and feel. Furniture is individually designed  to commission.

3. In the nineteenth century there were thirty pubs in Emsworth now there are only nine.

4. The Victoria Cottage Hospital opened in North Street in 1897 and was closed by the Area Health Authority in 2005

5. At the end of the 19th century 100,000 oysters were landed at Emsworth every week.  The Industry entered a rapid decline in 1902 after the dean of Winchester and several of his guests died from food poisoning after eating EmsworthOysters at dinner. Currently there are plans to revive the industry.

6. Emsworth's population has grown from 1,780 in 1891 to 9,737 in 2001.

7. The oldest building in the town is thought to be St Wilfrid's Hospice Shop  dating from seventeenth century in the High Street.

9. There are 55 TPOs (Tree Preservation Orders) in Emsworth.  Full list HERE

Emsworth also has a particularly fine Gasometer visible for miles around and a useful mark for sailors returning home.  Opinion is divided as to its merit as a landscape feature and it could do with a coat of paint!

The "Locomotive" on the corner of Seagull Lane - demolished in the 1950s

St Wilfrid's Hospice Shop

The Gasometer viewed across Brook Meadow