Warsash is a village in southern Hampshire situated at the mouth of the River Hamble. Boating plays an important part in the village’s economy. Before the 19th century, what is now known as Warsash was several separate hamlets; Warsash, Hook, Newtown and Chilling on Southampton Water. 

In the 19th century, Warsash started to expand in size and importance when shipbuilding moved across the river from Hamble-le-Rice. The salterns had expanded into a chemical works, and an iron smelting industry had started. By the mid-19th century, the two communities had been linked by road, with housing along these roads filling the open space to create one community. At the crossroads in the centre of the village, there is an unusual clock tower built around 1900, an example of the prosperity the leisure industry brought. The Warsash Clock Tower was built as a water tower to serve the Warsash House Estate.

In the sixties and seventies, the Warsash/Hamble ferry was run by Ray Sedgwick, a local boatman who hired boats out to tourists etc. The ferry hut on the Warsash side was built in the early 1900s by the Bugle pub, which sold beer to other local pubs. The hut was used to store kegs, as well as keeping travellers out of the rain. Harry Cohen (Jule’s grandad) owned the old Great Harry, the main pub in the centre of the village in 1964, and created a jazz bar.

In the 20th-century, people came here for crab and lobster, and proper strawberry teas were served locally with strawberries fresh from local strawberry fields. One of the car parks here stands on a former lobster pound.