Eastney

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Eastney is a district located in the south east corner of Portsmouth, England on Portsea Island.

Eastney started out as a small hamlet. In 1867 a barracks for the Royal Marines was built in the hamlet. The small hamlet and surrounding farmland was developed and absorbed into Portsmouth in the period 1890-1905.

Due to the heavy bombing suffered by Portsmouth during the Second World War many displaced people found refuge along the north shore of Eastney Lake. Living in makeshift houseboats, converted railway carriages and fisherman huts. Many of these homes lacking the basic amenities of electricity and plumbed water supplies. The community survived into the mid and late 1960s when the City Council finally began to decant families onto its newly built housing estates in Leigh Park and Paulsgrove.

The area is home to the Eastney beam engine house.

Eastney is also home to an unofficial Naturist Beach, although it may be under some threat from property development.

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