| Coastal defence, castles,
fortifications
Harrison's Hampshire 1788
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coastal defence,
fortifications
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The three legs of The Solent, Southampton Water and Spithead
form the main base of the Royal Navy. The area has to be
defended.
John Harrison shows some of the older castles along the coast
of Hampshire and depicts the polygonal fortification
around Portsmouth, at Cosham, and around Southampton.
The map is far too small to show the exact layouts, but
the distinctive zigzag shape of the walls of an artillery
fort, polygonal wall, bastions and ditches, is
clearly suggested.
This style of fortification with ditches, bastions, etc
was developed in the 16th to 18th centuries and became
obsolete during the 19th century. Note that the
Cosham and Portsmouth fortifications face landwards. They
are there to protect the Royal Navy's dockyard from an
invading force from landward.
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castles
fortifications |
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Inland castles are also listed.
'modern' name (parish; ngr) = old name (hundred) if given
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Calshot Castle (Fawley parish; SU488025)
= Calshot Castle (New Forest Hundred)
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Cosham Fort (Portsmouth parish)
= fort (Portsdown Hundred)
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Haselworth Castle (Gosport parish; SZ6198?)
= Worth Cast (Titchfield Hundred)
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Hurst Castle (Milford-on-Sea parish; SZ3189)
= Hurst Castle (Christ Church Hundred)
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Malwood Castle (Minstead parish; SU277121)
= Malwood Castle (New Forest Hundred)
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Netley Castle (Hound parish)
= Netley Cast (Mansbridge Hundred)
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Odiham Castle (Odiham parish)
= Odiham Castle (Odiham Hundred)
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Southsea Castle (Portsmouth parish; SZ6498)
= Sth. Sea Castle (Portsdown Hundred)
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St Andrew's Castle (Hamble parish; SU4806?)
= St Andrews Cas (Mansbridge Hundred)
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