Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Calshot, or Calshot Castle

Calshot, or Calshot Castle, hamlet, coastguard station, and seat, S. Hants, at W. side of mouth of Southampton Water, 7 miles SE. of Southampton. Off C. Castle, and on E. side of channel, is a lightvessel, with revolving light (Calshot) seen 9 miles.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet, coastguard station, and seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place names: CALSHOT     |     CALSHOT CASTLE     |     CALSHOT OR CALSHOT CASTLE
Place: Calshot

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