Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CALSHOT-CASTLE

CALSHOT-CASTLE, an extra-parochial tract in New Forest district, Hants; at the W side of the mouth of Southampton water, 7 miles SSE of Southampton. Pop., 23. Houses, 6. A castle here was one of the numerous small forts built by Henry VIII., for protecting the south coast; and is now a dwelling house.A lighthouse is here, with a fixed light, bright and red; and a light-vessel, called the Calshot Spit light, is in the neighbourhood; with a minute revolving light. Calshot-Castle is also a coastguard station.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an extra-parochial tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: New Forest RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Calshot

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