Nestled on Hampshire's border with West Sussex, Emsworth is a delightful village with narrow streets and a busy harbourside with charming pubs and restaurants and a host of small specialist shops.  

It is situated on the edge of Chichester Harbour, an area of outstanding natural beauty, and is popular port of call with sailors, artists, naturalists and walkers, as well as tourists and those who live nearby. There are several picturesque short walks around the village, which is the starting point for coastal and cross country walks all over Hampshire.  

Emsworth's long history has given the town distinct characteristics. It was a thriving centre for oyster fishing and boat building which continue today, though on a much smaller scale. Two tidal mill ponds to the east and west of the town centre play host to a variety of birdlife, and the mills, one on each pond, still remain though now converted to a variety of uses - gallery, sailing club, businesses and housing.  

The gradual growth of the town has resulted in many attractive streets which are lined by a mixture of brick and rendered Georgian houses with tiled or slate roofs which, combined with the high walled gardens, give Emsworth a genuine feel of the past.  

A former Coaching Inn still operates as a public house and there are many fine old houses along Tower Street, South Street, King Street and Queen Street most built in characteristic Hampshire brick except for former boat builder John King's house which is, unsurprisingly, timber throughout.  

Emsworth is closely connected to the novelist P.G. Wodehouse - try and spot the place names in Emsworth and its locality which he used for characters in his novels - the first of which were written while he was living at a prep school in Emsworth.