Brownsea

Brownsea, which is one of the few sites in southern England where there are red squirrels, the lagoon could be flooded, destroying a significant habitat for many species of birds.

dailyindia.com News Feed 2008

They haven’t spread that far, though there are amusing cases where populations introduced to islands (such as Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour) have swum to the mainland.

Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

They haven’t spread that far, though there are amusing cases where populations introduced to islands (such as Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour) have swum to the mainland.

Oh deer oh deer oh deer Darren Naish 2006

Some of them are in particularly spectacular locations, such as Bird How sleeps four, from £319 per week, a remote fellside cottage above the River Esk in Cumbria, and waterside Quay Cottage, the only holiday cottage on the National Trust-owned Brownsea Island in Poole harbour and already booked up for most of the year.

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Only on the Studland side of Poole harbour is the landscape still relatively wild and unspoilt, though Brownsea was utterly wild for a spell in the last century.

Country diary: Dorset 2010

Says Martin Papworth, the on-site archeologist at the Brownsea dig, "They introduce archeology to people with an interest who would [normally] not have such access."

DIGGING FOR TREASURE 2007

After a bit of Googling, some sites seem to agree, though the Dorset Tourist Board reckons Brownsea was the basis for Whispering Island in “Five Have a Mystery to Solve” not sure what the Club des Cinq title is.

holy grail 2005

Here are Branksea (or Brownsea) Castle, an enlarged and improved edition of one of Henry's coast forts, and a few cottages.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Brownsea and the Purbeck shore, where on a small peninsula is the pretty little hamlet of Arne, remote, forgotten and very seldom visited by tourist or stranger, but commanding the most exquisite views of the harbour and surrounding country.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

It was a bright summer afternoon: the estuary of Poole Harbour lay extended before me; its broad expanse studded with inlands of sand and furze bushes, of which Brownsea is the most considerable.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Various