Bosham
| Bosham | |
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 Holy Trinity church |
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 Bosham
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| Bosham shown within West Sussex | |
| Area | 13.75 km2 (5.31 sq mi) |
| Population | 2,900 2011 Census including Charlton and East Lavant |
| • Density | 210/km2 (540/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU8003 |
| • London | 57 miles (92 km) NE |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHICHESTER |
| Postcode district | PO18 |
| Dialling code | 01243 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Parish Council |
Bosham /ˈbɒzəm/ is a coastal village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England, centred about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Chichester with its clustered developed part west of this. Its land forms a broad peninsula projecting into natural Chichester Harbour where Bosham has its own harbour and inlet on the western side.
The parish has an area of 3,400 acres (14 km2). In the 2001 census its 2,847 people lived in 1,313 households, of whom 1,358 were economically active.
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes the Civil Parish of Chidham and Hambrook with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 4,256.
Broadbridge, sometimes known as North Bosham more developed round the A259 road and the Coastway railway line including Bosham railway station as with most stations in the county with direct services to London as well as the cities of Brighton and Portsmouth. The locality is increasingly referred to by its earlier name, Broadbridge.
Bosham is surrounded by varying width green buffer land, the vast bulk of which is the south of the peninsular. This includes the site of the original village centre on the harbour as well as the farmland and private property of Bosham Hoe. At spring tides the sea comes up high flooding the rural lower road and some car parking spaces.
The site has been inhabited since Roman times, and is close to the famous villa at Fishbourne. The Romans were responsible for the village's Mill Stream as there was no fresh water, and built a basilica there. Tradition holds that Emperor Vespasian maintained a residence in Bosham, although there is little evidence of this. There are, however, the remains of a villa popularly thought to belong to Vespasian, at the Stone Wall in the parish. Pottery and tile fragments, of both Roman and early British period, have been discovered in the area, confirming pre-Anglo-Saxon activity. The Roman harbour here was known as Magnus Portus and its position, as latitude and longitude, was plotted as part of Ptolemy's Geography.
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