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About Brownsea Castle

Brownsea Castle, additionally referred to verifiably as Branksea Castle, was initially a Device Fort developed by Henry VIII in the vicinity of 1545 and 1547 to ensure Poole Harbor in Dorset, England, from the risk of French assault. Situated on Brownsea Island, it involved a stone strong house with a hexagonal weapon stage. It was garrisoned by the neighborhood town with six warriors and furnished with eight mounted guns pieces.

The palace stayed being used after the first attack startle had passed and was involved by Parliament amid the English Civil War of the 1640s. Before the century's over, be that as it may, it had fallen into neglect. In 1726 the château was changed over into a private habitation by William Benson, regardless of grievances from the town of Poole. Benson and the ensuing proprietors stretched out the first strong house to shape a nation house, arranging the encompassing island to make fancy patio nurseries and lakes.

The nineteenth century saw kept building work by the palace's tenants, including the business person Colonel William Waugh, who raised different Jacobethan-styled augmentations. A genuine fire in 1896 gutted the manor, which was reestablished by Major Kenneth Robert Balfour. The rich stockbroker Charles Van Raalte drove an extravagant way of life at Brownsea toward the beginning of the twentieth century, utilizing it to house his gathering of antique melodic instruments.

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