Editing Emsworth (section)

===18th and 19th centuries===
[[File:Emsworth's old flour mill. - panoramio.jpg|thumb|right|The Old Flour Mill]]
[[File:Emsworth6.JPG|thumb|The Promenade]]

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Emsworth was still a port. Emsworth was known for [[shipbuilding]], [[boat building]] and [[rope]] making. Grain from the area was ground into flour by [[Tide mill|tidal mills]] and transported by ship to places such as London and [[Portsmouth]]. Timber from the area was also exported in the 18th and 19th centuries. The [[River Ems (Chichester Harbour)|River Ems]], which is named after the town (not, as often believed, the town being named after the river), flows into the Slipper millpond. The mill itself is now used as offices.

In the 19th century Emsworth had as many as 30 pubs and beer houses; today, only nine remain.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Emsworth had a population of less than 1,200 but it was still considered a large village for the time. By the end of the 18th century, it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the summer by the sea. In 1805 a [[Public bathing#United Kingdom|bathing house]] was built where people could have a bath in seawater.

St Peter's Chapel was completed in 1790, later becoming [[Emsworth Town Hall]].<ref name="museum">{{cite web |title=St Peter's Chapel |url=https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/exhibits/show/property/st-peter-s-chapel |website=Emsworth Museum |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref> The parish Church of St James was built in 1840 to a design by John Elliott.<ref name=Bailey259 /> It was expanded in the late 1850s this time to a design by John Colson.<ref name=Bailey259 /> Colson's designs were again used in an expansion of 1865.<ref name=Bailey259 /> A final round of building took place in the early 1890s this time to a design by [[Arthur Blomfield]].<ref name=Bailey259 /> The [[reredos]] added in the 1920s features a painting by [[Percy George Bentham]].<ref name=Bailey259>{{cite book |last1=O’Brien |first1=Charles|last2=Bailey |first2=Bruce|last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |last4=Lloyd |first4=David W. |date=2018 |title=The Buildings of England Hampshire: South |publisher=Yale University Press |page=259|isbn=9780300225037}}</ref>

[[Queen Victoria]] visited Emsworth in 1842, resulting in Queen Street and Victoria Road being named after her. In 1847 the [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] (now the [[West Coastway line]]) came to Emsworth, with a [[Emsworth railway station|railway station]] built to serve the town.

[[Hollybank House, Emsworth|Hollybank House]] to the north of the town was built in 1825 and is now a hotel.

Emsworth became part of [[Warblington Urban District]] which held its first meeting in 1895. The [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|Urban District]] was abolished in 1932. Emsworth subsequently became part of [[Havant Urban District]].