Castles of England/Hampshire
There are a number of notable castles in Hampshire.
Name |
Type |
Date |
Condition |
Image | Ownership / Access |
Notes (Key |
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Calshot Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Substantially intact | Altered 18–20th centuries, in use until 1961. | ||
Hurst Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Substantially intact | Repaired and refortified 19th century. | ||
Netley Castle | Artillery fort | 16–19th century | Rebuilt | Convalescent home | Remodelled and extended 1885–90. | |
Odiham Castle | Shell keep and bailey | Early 13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Local authority |
Built by King John. | |
Portchester Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–12th century | Extensive ruins | Built within surviving walls of Roman fort of the Saxon Shore. | ||
Southampton Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Fragments | North bailey wall survives. | ||
Southsea Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Rebuilt | Local authority |
Altered several times. | |
Warblington Castle | Fortified manor house | 16th century | Fragmentary ruins | Private | Remains of possibly fortified building besieged during the Civil War and subsequently destroyed, on site of earlier fortified manor house. | |
Winchester Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragment | Local authority |
Great hall survives, reroofed in 1873. | |
Wolvesey Castle | Castle | 12th century | Ruins |