Western Shore on Southampton Water at the site of Netley Military Hospital.

Netley Hospital, officially called The Royal Victoria Hospital. Construction started in 1856 at the suggestion of Queen Victoria, she often visited from one of her favourite homes with Prince Albert which was close by at Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight.

The hospital was extensively used during the First World War. Wounded troops from war could disembark directly to the hospital onto its own pier which reached out into Southampton Water. There was a branch Railway line direct to the hospital. The main building was the world’s longest building when it was completed. Sadly the main hospital building was demolished in 1966. In WW2 the hospital was used by the Americans after D-Day. The Chapel at the hospital’s centre remains and today is a museum.

There is a CWCC cemetery within the grounds of the hospital for those who could not be saved.

Some bird life on the Shore.