Hurst Castle

In the civil parish of Milford on Sea.
In the historic county of Hampshire (Modern Authority of Hampshire, 1974 county of Hampshire).

Artillery castle built between 1541 and 1544. Centres on a 12 sided keep surrounded by a courtyard beyond which lies the outer curtain wall and 3 bastions. Added to the east and west sides of the castle are two wing batteries constructed in the 1860s and designed to house 30 heavy guns

This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SZ31808974

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 459358

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 22376

• Web site links
  • http://WWW.hants.gov.uk/leisure/navdef/hurstcas/
    http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_south/196/hurstcastle.htm
    http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/entries/v05p233e01.html
    http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/conProperty.191
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p40-1
    Saunders, Andrew, 1997, Channel Defences (London; Batsford/English Heritage) p47, 59, 63, 64, 72, 81, 92, 94, 109, 119
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p85
    Barron, W.G., 1985, The Castles of Hampshire and Isle of Wight (Paul Cave) p27-8
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p191
    Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works Vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) p539-44
    Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p246
    Morley, B.M., 1976, Henry VIII and the Development of Coastal Defence (London) p12-13
    Pevsner, N. and Lloyd D., 1967, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Harmondsworth) p.29, 302-3
    O’Neil, B.H.St.J., 1960, Castles and Cannon: A Study of Early Artillery Fortifications in England (Oxford: Claredon Press) p51, 59-60
    Page, Wm (ed), 1912, VCH, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Vol5 p111-12
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p204-5
    Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p107
    Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol2 p196-9
• Journal Articles
  • Coad, J.G., 1985, 'Hurst Castle: The evolution of a Tudor Fortress 1790-1945' Post-Medieval Archaeology Vol19 p63-104
    1985, Fort Vol13 p81-2
    Kenyon, J.R., 1979,'An aspect of the 1599 survey of the Isle of Wight' Post-Medieval Archaeology Vol13 p61-77
    Phillips, 27.7.67, 'Repelling the Solent Invaders' Country Life
    Saunders, A.D., 1966, 'Coastal defences since the introduction of artillery' Archaeological Journal Vol123 p136-71
    Robins, 1955, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Vol19 p62-5
• Guidebooks
  • Coad, J.G., 1999, Hurst Castle (English Heritage)
    Coad, J.G., 1990 2edn, Hurst Castle, Hampshire. (English Heritage)
    James, J., 1986, Hurst Castle: an illustrated history (Wimborne: Dovecote Press)
    Coad, J.G., 1985, Hurst Castle, Hampshire. (English Heritage)
    Cantwell, A.R. and Sprack, P., 1985, Hurst Castle (Privately published) [duplicated typescript]
    Craster, O.E., 1949, Hurst Castle (HMSO)
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/wilshireeng.html#hants4]
    Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p207