Calshot Hampshire Family History Guide

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Calshot is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Calshot Castle

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

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.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: New Forest
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: New Forest
  • Hundred: Dibden Liberty
  • Province: Canterbury