[3] The east side is Lepe Country Park, with a mile of beach, pine-fringed cliffs, Operation Overlord remains (see below), year-round café-and-shop, and wild flower meadows;[4][5] From the cliffs above the beach, part of the view of the Western Solent is used by Solent Rescue Independent Lifeboat station.

"[8] Oral history ascribes a populous seaside hamlet to Lepe washed away by a great storm before the early 1700s; a ruined harbour, Stone Point, is spoken of.

[8] A wooden quay was built at Lepe to serve the local brickyards until the coastal trade dropped given the advent of railways.

[8] In 1943, it was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, hosting the J.1 Assault Group for the D-Day landings to restore Normandy to free French rule in June 1944.

Six massive concrete caissons (type B2 Phoenix breakwaters) were built here then towed across the Channel where they formed part of the Mulberry harbours used after D-Day.

Lepe beach was where PLUTO (Pipelines Under The Ocean) left the mainland: carrying fuel across to the Isle of Wight and under the English Channel to the Allied forces in Normandy and beyond.