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Title: Calshot Castle [Go to resource]
Description: Erected in 1539-40, with much of the stone reused from Beaulieu Abbey, Calshot provided an inner line of defence to Southampton Water. It is little more than a blockhouse, with a squat round tower. There is no outer ring of defences, apart from a low concentric outer wall with well-splayed openings for cannon. Further guns were probably housed in the tower. Its garrison was perhaps no more than about twenty men. The castle formed part of coastal defences until after the First World War, when it was a Royal Naval Air Station. Despite this long occupancy, it is surprisingly intact. The print dates from shortly after the alterations of the 1770s. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Subjects: RAF Calshot
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Calshot Castle
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CalshotTemporal: start=1780-01-01; end=1800-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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