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During the late Middle Ages, Henry VIII of England built an extensive set of coastal defences at each end of the Solent, part of his Device FortsThe Device Forts are a series of artillery fortifications built in England by Henry VIII. After his divorce of Catherine of Aragon left England politically isolated, a treaty between France and Spain in 1538 aroused fears of invasion. Although the threat, effectively controlling access to east and west. More forts were built on land and at sea in the 19th centuryAlternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical ( 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801- 1900. Events The Little Ice Age ended.

Ten thousand years ago, where the present Solent runs was a great estuary in a wooded valley, the so-called Solent River which drained a large area of what is now central southern England. It ran from the west to the east, and opened to the sea where the present-day eastern end of the Solent lies. When glacierA glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. Equivalently, it is a multi-year ice accretion in mountainous terrain. The glacier fringe is the area where the glacier has recently melted. There ares covering the north of Britain melted at the end of the last ice ageFor the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie . For the band, see Ice Age (band . An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers (" glaciation"). Glaci, the whole island of mainland Britain tilted about an east-west axis, submerging parts of the south coast, including the Solent. As sea level rose, the estuary of the Solent River was gradually inundated until eventually the Isle of Wight became separated from the mainland. This is thought to have occurred about 7,000 years ago. The process of coastal change is still continuing, with the soft cliffs on some parts of the Solent, such as Fort VictoriaFort Victoria was a single tier battery with defensible barracks west of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, built in the 1850s, later used as a submarine mining centre and training area for military purposes. The larger barrack blocks were demolished in 19, constantly eroding, whilst other parts, such as Ryde Sands , accreting.

Remains of human habitation have been found from the prehistoric, RomanRoman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens but also applicable to typography math and a commune''. Roman The noun Roman means a citizen of Rome. The adjective Roman means pertaining or related to Rome. The name Romans in and SaxonThis article is about the Saxons, a Germanic people. For other uses of the term, see Saxon (disambiguation). The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and the eastern Netherlands (but not in the area eras, showing that humans retreated towards progressively higher ground over these periods.

Even today a bank in the centre of the Solent, Bramble Bank , is exposed at low water. This, combined with the unique tidal patterns in the area, makes navigation challenging. There is an annual cricketcricket match in progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires. Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and i match on Bramble Bank during the lowest tide of the year - although it usually ends fairly quickly when the wicket is flooded! An interesting reference to this practice is found in Hansard, the British parliamentary record, during the debate on the Licensing Bill (Lords) in Standing Committee D, on 8 May 2003. In this debate the Island's MP, Andrew Turner, is discussing the problems of licensing when the event to be licensed falls between two authorities, and in a light-hearted way cites the example of the Bramble Bank cricket match. Link to the transcript