Old Hampshire Mapped
Cox's Hampshire
Transcription (56)Hayling Island
Thorney Island
salterns
Hayling and Thorney, two Islands: Hayling is the larger, and Thorney is so called from the Plenty of Thorns growing thereon. Each of them hath a Parish Church: Salt is made of the Sea Water in several Places along this Shore, which at first is of a pale and green Colour, but by boiling is made of a pure White. 'Tis this Salt that St. Ambrose speaks of, when he says, Water is turned into firm and solid Salt, as is usual in the British Isles, which is crusted into a substance as hard and white as Marble, and is very wholesome. Hexham; lib. 4. cap. [11].
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