Little Woodham

[1] The hamlet of Little Woodham was initially created in 1984 as a temporary reenactment of village life on the eve of the English Civil War by members of The English Civil War Society as part of their enactment of the fictional Battle Of Stokes Bay.

When the English Civil War Society announced they would be unable to continue, local residents formed the Gosport Living History Society to take over the running of the village to preserve it as an educational resource and tourist attraction.

Little Woodham has the only 17th century replica pottery kiln in the world, carefully reconstructed using the same materials and techniques.

[citation needed] The 17th century coal forge was recreated using evidence gathered from an archaeological dig of a seventeenth-century blacksmith shop at Ferryland, Newfoundland (built 1622) [3] and from various paintings [4] and etchings from the period.

[5] There are a number of other trades and crafts throughout the village, including weavers and wool dyers, a wood turner, button maker, apothecarist, scribe, trickster and barber surgeon and many more.