Description
Calshot Castle, an extra-parochial tract in Hants, at tin; W side of the mouth of Southampton Water, 7 miles SSE of Southampton. A castle here was one of the numerous smalt 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
