Captain Brown Bushell (1609 to 1651)

This is a warm inviting restaurant and hotel but a naval officer in the English Civil War was executed here (by gunshot or noose I don’t know.)

This man was a naval officer at the time of the English Civil War. He initially sided with the Roundheads. On 15th August 1641 he led a small band of men to Portsmouth Harbour to capture the ship Henrietta Marie. However two years later he switched to the royalist side. This cost him his life and he was executed for piracy in March 1651.

I wondered if you can stay in the room where the execution took place. Perhaps his ghost is floating around.