Portsmouth, Pembroke Park Hotel, 1 Bellevue Terrace , Southsea , Portsmouth , Hampshire , England , UK .

Photographs Portsmouth Emsworth Food Festival 2005

Emsworth – Great Place, Great Food, Great People!

Emsworth, Hampshire, England.
Now in its 5th year the region’s leading Food Festival. Taking place over three days every third weekend in September each year, this is an event that no food lover could fail to enjoy.  Whether it’s fresh oysters on the fishing quay, lunch or dinner in one of the village’s restaurants, or purely strolling through the Festival’s eighty or so food related stalls, this is THE Food Festival that you really should not miss. International fine wine producers, live music and street entertainment, local quality food producers, a wide range of food and kitchen related items.

Emsworth is a small town in the United Kingdom with narrow streets, Georgian houses, high walled gardens and swans on the mill pond. Emsworth is situated on the south coast on the border between Hampshire and West Sussex. The town lies at the north end of Chichester Harbour, a large but shallow inlet from the Solent. This is now used almost exclusively for recreational sailing, but in the past was the setting for Emsworth's oyster farming industry. In some places the old oyster-beds can still be seen at low tide. The town has a basin for small yachts and a few fishing boats opposite the millpond, an artificial lake which fills at high tide and is emptied through a sluice at low tide. The River Ems, after which the town is named, also flows into the millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it, now houses one of several local sailing clubs. Fishing vessels are still a familiar sight in Emsworth quay and enhance the nautical atmosphere.

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