BROWNSEA ISLAND, POOLE HARBOUR
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Brownsea Island, Dorset, England         OS Map Grid Ref: SZ023879
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Brownsea Island is about 1.5 miles long, half as broad and comprises an area of some 500 acres. It is located near the mouth of Poole Harbour and is the largest of the many island in that body of water.

Brownsea Island looking approximately north across Poole Harbour from the Sandbanks Ferry

The name in the 13th century was Brunkeseye which derives from the personal name Burn or Brown and the Old English eig for island. It is sometimes known as Branksea.

The flanks of the island are disguised beneath the dark green groves of pine which clothe its margins but the interior presents a vista of glens and hills (some as high as 90 feet) which are covered in heath and wild flowers.

HISTORY, IN BRIEF

The island is probably best known for its connection with the Scouting Movement as it was here that Colonel Baden-Powell sited his first experimental camp in 1907.

Once the property of Cerne Abbey in Dorset, the island possessed a hermit's cell. It was in private hands with no access to the public until it passed to the National Trust which manage it as a nature reserve. It is the last refuge of our native red squirrel, ousted from England and Wales by its larger grey American cousin, to be found this side of the border with Scotland.

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The island's position commanding the mouth of the harbour and the navigable channel led to the building of Brownsea Castle at its southern extremity by Henry VIII and its strengthening during the reign of Charles I.

Brownsea Island and all upon it came into the possession of Lieutenant-Colonel Waugh in 1848 and he spent a great deal of money developing it by building cottages and a church. The austere castle itself did not escape his attentions either - given a Tudor-Gothic frontage it was remodelled as a splendid mansion. It burnt down in 1896 and was rebuilt to leave the castle we see today.

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The northern part of the island is leased to the Dorset Wildlife Trust which runs it as a nature reserve. The Wildlife Trust's first reserve, it was acquired by them in 1962.

The island is accessible to visitors by means of a foot passenger ferry from Sandbanks.

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