The village has been featured in a television drama series, "Howard's Way" in which the local pub "The Jolly Sailor" which stands on the water's edge and can be reached by both land and sea, took a leading part! It is just here that the river widens. The pub also has a restaurant that is popular with the many boat owners that berth here.

Bursledon Windmill

The church of St Leonard can be found halfway up a hill, it comes from the Norman era and a lot of restoration was carried out in the 19th century, including at timber porch to its west door. There are two carved tombstones in the outer wall, one from the 17th and the other from the 18th century.

The font is Norman and over 800 years old, and has interlaced arches as a decoration. In the chancel can be found one rare 20th century brass, a portrait of Lorame Estridge who was the Canon of Truro

The Church of St Leonards
The War Memorial		Here lytheth ye body of JOHN TAYLER who deceased ye 5 of January 1691 Also here lytheth ye body of Elinor the wife of JOHN TAYLER who deceased ye 6 day of August 1719 aged 63 years
The church taken from the old graveyard		The church looking from the gate of the new cemetry
The High Street showing the Old Post Office		The Fox and Hounds
The church of the  Rosary		Yachts at anchor on the Hamble River

Gilbert Spencer Smith, the artist, is remembered here and there is a tiny  sculptured  table that shows scenes from the east and there are also a couple of other monuments that show scenes from the days of sailing ships. One of these has a coat of arms on top which shows a ship's hull and is in memory of Philemon Ewer  who was a shipbuilder who "during the late war with France and Spain built seven large ships of war," and "in the execution of that important trust gained and deserved the reputation of an ingenious artist, an excellent workman and an honest man." he died in 1750

And a tablet states that in the churchyard sleeps one George Parsons whose shipyard constructed the 74 gun HMS Elephant and also the ship that both Nelson and Hardy sailed on during the battle of Copenhagen.

There has been a brickworks associated with Bursledon since 1897 though it is at Swannick. It was founded by the Ashby family to replace a former brickworks that they had owned at Chandlers Ford ,near Eastleigh. Production here developed fairly quickly and in 1903 a second brickworks was constructed on land that is now occupied by the Civil Aviation Authority Centre.

Before the outbreak of World War two further kilns and drying sheds were built and production really took off, peaking at around 20 million bricks a year. To achieve this 180 men were employed and in 1959 while amalgamating with another business Redlands Brick and Tile Co, now Redlands plc was formed.

Sadly it was in 1974 that the works closed down and the buildings gradually fell into disrepair, but hope was not lost, in November of 1990 the Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust purchased the site and started a restoration programme.

BURSLEDON WINDMILL -how it works and its construction