Cromwell's Castle is on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly (grid reference SV882159). The view from the helicopter leaving Tresco Tresco, UK, is the second largest island of the Isles of Scilly. ... The Isles of Scilly (Cornish: Ynysek Syllan) form an archipelago of islands off the southwesternmost tip of England. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
It is a coastal fort built by Oliver Cromwell around 1650 and consists of a stone circular artillery tower, with a low 18th century gun platform having its own access and guard room. It is built on a promontory to guard the anchorage between Bryher and Tresco. Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599–September 3, 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for making England a republic and leading the Commonwealth of England. ... Bryher (grid reference SV880150) is the smallest of the five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly. ...
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References
Cromwell's Castle
Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
The castle began as an earth and timber castle built by by John de Vaux, Seneschal to Alexander II's consort Marie de Coucy, a Norman family that settled in Scotland with David I in the 12th century.
Cromwell then bombarded the castle using mortar pieces to tear open the gate house and entered by storm.
In 1663 the castle passed to the Nisbet family and was abandoned as a residence in favour of a new manor house at Archerfield.
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