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Also features a Café (La Cantina), selling American-style food, and a Shop (General Stores), selling cap guns and cowboy-themed supplies. Originally Buffalo Creek in Isle of Wight County before its relocation in 1994 . After it was relocated it was renamed in a 1990s guidebook as buffalo canyon . It has gone through a couple of name changes ...
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. [ 55 ]
Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island in England. Referred to as "The Island" by residents, [6] the Isle of Wight has resorts that ...
General information. Location. Isle of Wight, England, UK. Coordinates. 50°41′40″N 1°17′30″W / 50.6945°N 1.2918°W / 50.6945; -1.2918. OS grid. SZ500885. Newport Roman Villa was a Romano-British farmhouse constructed in 280 AD. It is located near to Newport, Isle of Wight.
Prince Albert (designer) Engineer. Thomas Cubitt (builder) 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.
Submerged. Bouldnor Cliff is a submerged prehistoric settlement site in the Solent. The site dates from the Mesolithic era and is in approximately 11 metres (6 fathoms) of water just offshore of the village of Bouldnor on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. The preservation of organic materials from this era that do not normally survive on ...
England. Isle of Wight. 50°41′30″N 1°19′02″W / 50.6917°N 1.3172°W / 50.6917; -1.3172. Carisbrooke is a village on the south-western outskirts of Newport, in the civil parish of Newport and Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, England. [2] It is best known as the site of Carisbrooke Castle.
Wolverton Manor (also Ulwartone, 11th century; Wolveton, 13th century) is a manor house in Shorwell, on the Isle of Wight, England. The original house was started by John Dingley (d. 1596), Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight. The Jacobean style home, built by Sir John Hammond after the death of Sir John Dingley, is the second house built on ...