Calshot Castle

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Calshot Castle is one of Henry VIII's device forts, built on Calshot Spit at the Solent near Fawley to guard the entrance to Southampton Water (grid reference SU488025).

It was built as a circular blockhouse with a three storey central keep in 1540 using stone from Beaulieu Abbey. The outer walls were lowered in 1774 and the gatehouse was rebuilt in order to provide more living space. The south east battery was added in 1895 but has since been demolished. The castle was in use until 1956.

It is now owned by English Heritage and visitors to the castle can park in the adjacent leisure centre car park.

[edit] References

• Hampshire County Council - Information about Calshot Castle
• More about Calshot Castle
• Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

[edit] See also

• Henry VIII: Legacy
• Device Forts
• Martello Tower
• Eastbourne Redoubt
• Pevensey Castle
• Dymchurch Redoubt

[edit] External links

• Photographs and Description

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Coordinates: 50.82000° N 1.30860° W