Calshot castle - Southampton

 Calshot castle 

Date:   April 2022

Location: Southampton

Public or Abandoned:   Public

Demolished:   No

we took a 2hr drive down to Southampton -  and stop off at Calshot castle, we didn't spend long there as the castle itself is not very big - we spent prob a max 30 mins looking around the castle -  but with the nice weather it made the trip worth it, 

its said that Calshot Castle is an artillery fort, and it was built between 1539/1540 by king henry VIII , 

due to the first world war, the castle was used for seaplane deploy,   and it said due to second world war  it was re-armed for possible german invasion 

after the war - the fort was still used for the seaplanes but as they come obsolete and finally closed in 1961, it was used by coast guard for a short period of time before English heritage took over in the 1980s and restored it back to the pre 1914