A new Farmhouse Inns restaurant is being built in Langstone on what is know as Bosmere field. For some years in the recent past Bosmere School used the field for games. They had no further use for the field since development of their site in South Street.
The field backs onto the Langbrook stream, also shown on C19 maps as the Millstream, as it linked the former Havant Town Mill to the north (by Tesco) with Langstone Mill to the south.
The field was the run off for the Town Mill and known as Lower Flash Field. Before the war it belonged to the well-known Longcroft family and was part of the grounds of their home, Hall Place, South St.
In the mid 1800s an 8-bedroomed house, set in 12 acres of meadowland attached and called Langbrook (because of the stream) was built on the south boundary of the field by Rev. G Mountain's widow. (St Faith's). It was demolished when the A27 was built.