Boldre Hill

‘Built on the site of an old cottage by Admiral [Augustus] Brine with his share of the prize money'. Brine's grandson changed his name to Knapton in 1860, as the only surviving relative of the family that had held the manor of Brockenhurst before the Morants (when Brockenhurst House was called Watcomb House). In 1918 it was sold to William Meischke-Smith (1869-1931), a 'world-wide explorer' and 'an industrious and scientific agriculturist' who provided 'additional model cottages on the estate, entirely from his own designs'.