Its length, from the eastern shore of Southampton Water to the Needles rocks off the western extremity of Wight, is 15 m.
At the mouth of Southampton Water is a projecting bar resembling but smaller than that of Hurst Castle, and like it bearing a Tudor fortress, Calshot Castle.
Meonstoke Perrers, part of the endowment of Winchester College, was certainly bought on the 12th of June 1380 from Sir William Windsor, her husband, whose name seems to be derived from Windsor, near Southampton water.
The evening was rounded off by an exceptional pyrotechnics display from a barge moored in Southampton Water.
Waving arms and waggling fingers were the order of the day when Southampton water babies took their swimming lessons in silence.
