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Seagrove Bay is a bay on the northeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the east of the village of Seaview facing towards Selsey Bill with a 2 ⁄ 3 mile (1.1 km) shoreline stretching from Nettlestone Point in the north to Horestone Point in the south. [1] The bay has both the Seaside Award Flag and the Water Quality Award. [2]
The Cowes Floating Bridge is a vehicular chain ferry that crosses the River Medina on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.The ferry crosses the tidal river from East Cowes to Cowes, and remains the only way to cross the River Medina between the towns without taking a ten-mile trip via Newport.
Nettlestone and Seaview is a civil parish [4] and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight. It contains the villages of Nettlestone and Seaview . Public Transport is provided by Southern Vectis bus route 8, which operates between Ryde , and Newport via Bembridge and Sandown .
View of the Solent from Gurnard, near Cowes, Isle of Wight The Solent from Wootton, Isle of Wight, showing Wightlink Fishbourne–Portsmouth ferries crossing.. The Solent (/ ˈ s oʊ l ən t / SOH-lənt) is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth lie inland of its shores.
On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...
Nettlestone is a village on the Isle of Wight, England about 4 miles (6 km) south east from Ryde. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having been in existence in 1066. [ 1 ] Together with Seaview , it forms the civil parish [ 2 ] of Nettlestone and Seaview .
Seaclose Park is the site of the revived Isle of Wight Festival and as such, it has received great publicity and investment to maintain its condition for the festival. [ citation needed ] For 16 December 2009, the park was transformed to a Winter Wonderland after coming top in a competition held by Nokia , with nearly 2,400 votes to have it ...
St Catherine's Point is the southernmost point on the Isle of Wight. It is close to the village of Niton and the point where the Back of the Wight changes to the Undercliff of Ventnor. On nearby St Catherine's Down is St Catherine's Oratory, locally known as the "Pepperpot", a stone lighthouse built in the 1323 by Walter De Godeton. It is ...