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Great East Standen Manor in 2007. Great East Standen Manor is a manor house on the Isle of Wight, England.Its history dates to the Norman Conquest; [1] and it was allegedly once the residence of Princess Cicely, [2] the daughter of Edward IV, following her third marriage to Sir Thomas.
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
Ashey is the site every year of an amateur horse race known as the "Isle of Wight Grand National and Ashey Scurry". There are four races that include jumping over fences. It is open to horses and ponies of all sizes and breeds. Riders of all ages enter. It includes a beer tent and betting. There was a racecourse opened in Ashey in 1884.
Northcourt Manor is one of three manor houses, along with Woolverton and Westcourt, that is located in Shorwell, on the Isle of Wight, England. It was begun by Sir John Leigh, Deputy Governor of the Island, in 1615, but was unfinished at his death. Northcourt is currently in use as a hotel. [1]
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 ...
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 ]
Standen House in 2021. Standen House is an English country house located 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Newport, Isle of Wight. [1] The 18th-century house has a brick front and features seven-bay windows, a porch with Doric columns, and triglyph frieze.
The term Wihtware translates from Old English as "the people of the Isle of Wight", with the suffix -ware denoting a people group, as in Cantware ("the people of Kent"). [1] [2] [3] In the Old English translation of Bede's work, the term Wihtsætan is used instead, possibly as it was the more common name by which the group was known at the time of writing.