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Setley History
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History of the Setley Pond area
Pre-history (i.e. before the Club members can remember!)
Setley Plain features a number of prehistoric features. To the left of the track leading from the road to the Setley pond car park there is a Bronze Age "disc" or "bell" barrow. Consisting of a central mound surrounded by a ditch and external bank, the Setley Plain barrows are unique in the New Forest but also found on Salisbury Plain and other sites. It's hard to photograph (even in the early morning sun when this was taken) so go and have a look at it, it's very obvious!
Second World War
There was a Prisoner of War Camp west of the Brockenhurst to Lymington road, just south of the Filly Inn (OS Map reference: SU 301 998). The camp originally held Italian POWs, then Germans (source:BBC). The camp is still clearly visible in aerial photos. The camp entrance road appears to have been at the NE (top right hand) corner of the camp. However this may be a more modern feature.
More photos here!.
We think that Setley Pond was a World War 2 gravel pit used in the construction of the airfield at RAF Lymington. It would be an odd location for a natural pond and the pond is not marked on the 1919 Edition of the OS Map. If anyone has further information, please get in touch.
The Club
Some photographs from the earlier days of the Solent Radio Controlled Model Boat Club taken by Ken Dyer. No pond-side car park, and pigs rather than Highland Cattle!
Press-cuttings from two of the earlier "Highfield Shows" arranged in 1988 and 1996 by the Solent Radio Controlled Model Boat Club in aid of the RNLI.