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Carisbrooke Castle
Right on the quayside
Overlooking Ryde Esplanade and Harbour with views across the Solent, this majestic building is claimed to have been commissioned by Henry VIII to defend the Spithead, Southampton Water and the Solent from the invasion by the Spanish Armada during his daughter’s reign. During World War I the building was used as a wartime hospital and during World War II it was an Army HQ.
"Cowes", reported Mason's Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1876, "the principal station of the Royal Yacht Club...has an air of business as well as pleasure, not to be met within every watering place.