Thorney Island Sailing Club

For many centuries the village of West Thorney, with its attractive Norman church, was a remote marshland community of farmers and fishermen. It was separated from the mainland by Little Deep and Great Deep, which are still visible as marshland meres today. On 25th September 1933, Thorney Island came to the notice of the Air Ministry, when a Hawker biplane fighter crashed, killing the pilot, Sergeant William Molesworth Hodge. When the site of the crash was investigated, the island was recognized... more