Small Sussex village features on the Bayeux Tapestry

Bosham, pronounced Bozzum, is on one of the small inlets of Chichester harbour and was named among Britain’s 30 greatest villages in a list by The Telegraph last month.

The newspaper lauded the "loveliness of Bosham” saying you "may just expire from sheer overload of beauty".

The village has beautiful harbour views (Image: Suzi Sullivan/The Argus Camera Club)

It adds: "Between a quay pleasingly strewn with little wooden boats and a Grade I-listed church, Bosham village green is perfectly orientated for sunset, when locals and regulars gather to picnic, pop corks, play badminton, drag sailing dinghies up the ramp from the water – the whole blissful bucolic scene painted rosy by the sinking sun.”

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The village even featured on the Bayeux Tapestry (Image: Suzi Sullivan/The Argus Camera Club)

The hard to pronounce name comes from the Old English word Bosanhamm, meaning Bosa’s water meadow as it was known in the 8th century.  

When it was inhabited by the Romans, Bosham was the sixth most important town in Sussex.

It was from Bosham that Harold II set forth in 1064 to negotiate with William of Normandy, a voyage that led to William the Conqueror's return in 1066 and the village even features in the Bayeaux Tapestry.