Hurst Castle, completed around 1541, occupied the narrowest point of the western Solent on a shingle spit barely a mile from the Isle of Wight shore. Any fleet entering the Solent from the west had to pass within close range of its guns. The castle was among the most strategically placed of all the Device Forts and remained an active military installation for four centuries.
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Captain, gunners, and garrison; artillery commanding the western Solent narrows
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