Brambles Estate Agents - Warsash

The area of Warsash used to consist of a number of villages; these included Hook, Newtown, Chilling and Warsash itself. Hook was a dockyard, where the old man-of-war ships were built, although after the 100 Years War this industry declined in the area and fishing and smuggling were the main sources of income in Chilling and Warsash, and Newtown had Salterns (Salt making facilities). At the latter part of the 18th century the land around Hook was bought by the Hornby family and this then became known as it is today as the Hook estate. George Parsons was a shipbuilder who initially had a lease in Bursledon, however this expired and he moved his business to Shore Road, from here he built several was ships in the 1800s with his son John Parsons and Grandson John Rubie.