According to an 1834 map Sinah Common, the big, quiet pasture to the south-west of Hayling Island was little more than a haven for rabbits. Today the common plays host to a golf club, just a nine-iron swing from the landscaped gardens and quietly-lapping waters around Sinah Warren.
Clearly the name harks back to the original inhabitants. And while to our knowledge no-one’s actually attempted to count the rabbits, it’s a safe bet that assessments were made of the area’s less frisky organisms – the flora. For when Augus Arbuthnot bought the farmland between Sinah Lane and The Kench in the 1930s, he developed the Sinah Warren house and park and promptly tried to grow every known tree in the world many of which remain.
