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Harvey Brown's farm shop café. Hale Common features "The Fighting Cocks" pub. [1] There is a strawberry farm in Hale Common, called Hollands Strawberry Farm. Hollands Strawberry Farm has a shop, and also allows people to pick their own strawberries. [2] Fishing lake. There are two fishing lakes in Hale Common, called the Hale Manor lakes. [3]
Map of places on the Isle of Wight compiled from this list; Isle of Wight Towns & Villages, Isle of Wight Time, Greenwich Mean Time website; Place Name Index, Wightcam- Photographically Illustrated Walks on the Isle of Wight; The Villages and Towns of the Isle of Wight, Southern Life (UK) website; History of the Villages of Hampshire, Dorset ...
The Isle of Wight Militia (IoWM) was an auxiliary military force on the Isle of Wight off the South Coast of England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until their final service as coastal artillery, the Militia regiments of the island served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1909.
Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat. Albert designed the house in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo.
The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 56 ]
Maj. Lewis Burwell (1621–1653), [3] was baptized on 5 March 1621/22 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England.In 1650, the wealthy planter (who owned about 7000 acres of land) married Lucy Higginson, whose parents had likewise emigrated to the Virginia colony to escape the English Civil War, but whose father Robert, after leading the Middle Plantation militia and arranging a stockade to protect ...
The privately owned Gunville Lake is on the west side of Gunville Road and is the oldest fishery owned by the Isle of Wight Freshwater Angling Association (IWFAA). This freshwater section of the Isle of Wight Angling Society was formed in 1956, [9] although they were unable to take full control of the lake's lease until 1969. During all of this ...
Landing House Norris Estate, East Cowes, Isle of Wight Landing House: 1855-6: 5 July 2000: 1389288: Upload Photo: Precinct Walls of Old Quarr Abbey: Binstead, Fishbourne, Isle of Wight