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

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Name	Hurst Castle
Alternative Names
Historic County	Hampshire
Civil Parish	Milford on Sea
Type	Artillery Fort
Confidence	Certain
Remains	Major
Listed	Not listed
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	SZ318897
Eastings	431800
Northing	89740
Images of England Reference
PastScape Reference	459358
Historic Environment Record	22376

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Books

• Harrington, Peter, 2007, The Castles of Henry VIII (Oxford: Osprey)
• 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

Antiquarian

• 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

Journals

• Coad, J.G., 1985, 'Hurst Castle: The evolution of a Tudor Fortress 1790-1945' Post-Medieval Archaeology Vol19 p63-104
• 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 (London: English Heritage)
• Coad, J.G., 1990 2edn, Hurst Castle, Hampshire. (London: English Heritage)
• James, J., 1986, Hurst Castle: an illustrated history (Wimborne: Dovecote Press)
• Coad, J.G., 1985, Hurst Castle, Hampshire. (London: English Heritage)
• Cantwell, A.R. and Sprack, P., 1985, Hurst Castle (Privately published) [duplicated typescript]
• Craster, O.E., 1949, Hurst Castle (HMSO)