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Map of Brownsea Island. Brownsea Island lies in Poole Harbour opposite the town of Poole in Dorset, England. It is the largest of eight islands in the harbour. The island can be reached by one of the public ferries or by private boat. There is a wharf and a small dock near the main castle.
Mary Bonham-Christie purchased Brownsea Island at auction in 1927, for £125,000 (£6.6 million in 2024). She gave the island's 200 residents notice to leave, and banned hunting and fishing on grounds of animal cruelty.
[46] [c] She decided to live in a nearby house rather than in the castle itself, allowing the island to return to nature and the castle to fall into disrepair. [47] 1932 was the Silver Jubilee of that first Camp, and Mrs Bonham Christie permitted celebrations to be held on the Island, and 500 Scouts camped on the original site.
Brownsea Island Scout camp, is a historic Scout campsite on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in southern England, which was the site of Robert Baden-Powell's 1907 experimental camp for boys to test ideas for his book Scouting for Boys, which led to the rapid growth of the Scout movement.
Balfour purchased Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in 1891. Following the introduction of electric lighting, the castle was gutted by fire in 1896. It was later rebuilt - with modern fire hydrants - and in 1901 Balfour put the island up for sale. [2]
The island’s veterinarian, Joe Hollins said in 2015, “We have a record that he was landed in 1882 fully grown. We are told that fully grown is at least 50 years of age, and so this is how we ...
In August 1907, he held an experimental camp, the Brownsea Island Scout camp to test his ideas for training boys in scouting. [8] He wrote Scouting for Boys, [9] published in 1908 by C. Arthur Pearson Limited, for boy readership. In 1910 Baden-Powell retired from the army and formed The Scout Association.
Cavendish-Bentinck purchased Branksea Castle on Brownsea Island in 1873 and introduced Jersey cows and developed agriculture on the island. [30] He died there in April 1891, aged 69. [ 31 ] His wife survived him by five years and died in June 1896.