Totton and Eling

Eling's attractions include the parish church and Eling Tide Mill Experience. St Mary's is a Norman church built on Saxon foundations with registers dating back to 1537. The Eling Tide Mill Experience is Eling Tide Mill, its visitor centre, and the outdoor walks around the mill pond at Bartley Water and the Solent Water shoreline at Goatee Beach. Eling Tide Mill is one of the very few working tide mills in the UK but cannot be equated with the mill listed in the Domesday Book in 1086. Hampshire's only surviving medieval toll bridge is here, across Bartley Water by the side of the Tide Mill. This has been in use since at least 1418 and still charges users today. The Eling Tide Mill…

The areas behind Calmore Industrial Estate by the River Test have been regenerated with mineral extraction turned into lakes for boating, but their main use is as a sanctuary for local wildlife and local people to enjoy green spaces, with one lake used for fishing and boating and as a water supply resource. There is also the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's Testwood Lakes Education Centre. Walks connect the area along the Test Way running from Totton to Inkpen Beacon in Berkshire, via Romsey in Hampshire. Eling can be accessed by crossing the railway line which divides the original old village of Totton and the areas of Eling, and Hounsdown. This goes to Brokenford which has some…