![]() So he bought the island and set up a pottery employing 200 local people. Then in 1852 Col William Waugh thought he had found china clay when white mud stuck to his wife’s walking stick. Luckily 40 years later the Spanish Armada was beaten off before it got anywhere near Poole Harbour.įrom the 1650s Brownsea was owned by a succession of MPS. He used it as the base for a fort to guard the strategic approaches to the South Coast. In the 1530s King Henry VIII snatched control of the island from Cerne Abbey following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Monks built a chapel on the island in the ninth century AD but this was destroyed by the Viking invaders under King Cnut in 1015. Looking back in time, Brownsea was a settlement as far back as 500BC and archaeologists have found black pottery made from local clay. Although I didn't see red squirrels on my trip to Brownsea, I felt I must show a picture anyway - this was taken on Brownsea by SteveJMīrownsea – originally called Branksey, meaning Brank’s island – is a 500-acre island of pinewood and heathland and salt-marsh and a habitat for wildlife. ![]()
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