Formerly the Canute Castle Hotel, Southampton
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Formerly the Canute Castle Hotel, Southampton
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 2 Oct 2016
Now an estate agents, and what looks like flats above. On the wall between first and second floors it says 'Near this spot A.D. 1028 Canute reproved his courtiers'. This relates to the well-known but poorly understood incident, possibly legendary, where the pious king commanded the tide to stop coming in. He was demonstrating to his over-flattering courtiers that only God, not kings, had power over the tides. Whether any god has power over the tides is a moot point, as also is the actual location of this event - several places on the south coast have made claims. A grade II listed building from about the late 1830s.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.897086
Longitude
-1.393918