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Castle is open on these days: 24 May to 1 June 26 July to 31 August 25 October to 2 November Each day the castle will be open from 10am to 2pm

lovely lighthouse! at high tide beach becomes impassable not for after...

good parking and facilities

gets you close to the shipping to and from Southampton and gaze in awe at the sheer size of the boat's

Lepe Beach is part of Lepe Country Park and is a mixture of sand and shingle. With views of the Isle of Wight and a cafe by the car park, this is an excellent place to stop, enjoy the scenery and even have a swim in the sea.

Great views over the Solent and Southampton Water. Best visited when the wind isn't too strong.

Calshot Spit is in the perfect position for defending Southampton Water. Calshot Castle (surrounded by aircraft hangars) is a Tudor Fort that was built by Henry VIII in the 16th century using stone reused from Beaulieu Abbey. It was later fortified by the Victorians. During the World War I, Calshot provided Channel defence and a training base for pilots. In 1929 and 1931 Calshot was the venue of the famous Schneider Cup Trophy race and was the base of the Supermarine S6 seaplane. Calshot played an important role in the World War II and became home to the Sunderland Flying Boat. Find out more about the history of Calshot inside the Sunderland hangar.

Now a fishing lake, Mopley Pond was formed some time in the past by damming the valley where two streams met to form a mill pond for the Mopley watermill on the Bourne. The earlies known reference to a mill here is 1626, but the mill referred to under Woodington in 1555 is almost certainly Mopley. The mill appears on the Fawley tithe map of 1838, but it has been removed by the OS Survey undertaken in 1868. The PLUTO pipeline ran from the holding tanks on Badminston Common to a pump house at Mopley Pond, but was removed after the war. The pump-house was constructed of corrugated iron with a gabled tin roof and double doors in the end, making it look like a domestic garage. All that is left today is the concrete base, and even this is overgrown with vegetation. From Mopley to Stone Point on the Lepe foreshore, the PLUTO pipeline then ran underwater across the Solent to Thorness Bay on the Isle of Wight and thence across the Island to Shankling Chine, where it crossed the Channel to the Cherbourg Peninsular.