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Buckler's Hard

Beaulieu

A riverside shipbuilding village on the Beaulieu River with a maritime museum and a single street of old brick cottages.

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WaterfrontTime here: 1.5–2 h

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Buckler's Hard, Beaulieu, SO42 7XB

Quick facts

The second Duke of Montagu built the village as Montagu Town, intending a free port for trade with the West Indies.

Over about sixty years master shipwright Henry Adams oversaw the building of 43 Royal Navy ships here, and three of them fought at Trafalgar in 1805.

Visitors can see the maritime museum and reconstructed cottage displays, and take a river cruise.

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