Hurst Castle
Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal protection programme against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the western entrance to the Solent waterway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hurst Point Lighthouse and Hurst Spit.
Hurst Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Hurst Point Lighthouse is located at Hurst Point in the English county of Hampshire, and guides vessels through the western approaches to the Solent. Hurst Point Lighthouse is situated 590 feet north of Hurst Castle.
Hurst Spit
Beach
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Hurst Spit is a one-mile-long shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven, at the western end of the Solent, on the south coast of England. The spit shelters an area of saltmarsh and mudflats known as Keyhaven and Pennington marshes. Hurst Spit is situated 3,800 feet northwest of Hurst Castle.
Fort Albert
Apartment building
Fort Albert is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs south-west of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight, England. It was also known as Cliff End Fort, named after the Northern extremity of Colwell Bay. Fort Albert is situated 1 mile southeast of Hurst Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keyhaven and Colwell Bay.
Keyhaven
Village
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Keyhaven is a hamlet on the south coast of England in the county of Hampshire. It is a fishing village, but the trade has been in decline for a period of years and its main draw now is tourism, especially sailing.
Colwell Bay
Village
Colwell Bay is a bay in the west of the Isle of Wight. It is located between the towns of Totland and Yarmouth. The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle situated at the end of a long peninsula just under a mile to the northwest.
Totland
Village
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Totland is a village, civil parish and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight. Besides the village of Totland, the civil parish comprises the western tip of the Isle of Wight, and includes The Needles, Tennyson Down and the hamlet of Middleton. Totland is situated 1½ miles south of Hurst Castle.
Hurst Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: Device Fort in Hampshire, England
- Categories: military museum, Device Forts, fort, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Milford-on-Sea, New Forest, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Hurst Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hurst gaztelua”
- Cebuano: “Hurst Castle”
- Chinese: “赫尔斯特城堡”
- Danish: “Hurst Castle”
- Dutch: “Hurst Castle”
- Finnish: “Hurstin linna”
- French: “Hurst Castle”
- German: “Hurst Castle”
- Italian: “Hurst Castle”
- Japanese: “ハースト城”
- Swedish: “Hurst Castle”
Localities in the Area
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Nearby Places
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