Little Kettle, Isles of Scilly

A cannons view of the entrance to New Grimsby Sound

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The sound was a supply route and also the safest anchorage in the Isles of Scilly. Cromwell built this castle in 1651 and the royalists surrendered shortly after. Shipman Head. Bryher is to the left, this is only one of the cannon in position

Uploaded to Geograph by Martin Dawes on 18 July 2017

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