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- Density

- Admin. council

369 /km2 (960 /sq mi)

Ranked

Ethnicity

Politics

Isle of Wight Council

www.iwight.com (http://www.iwight.com)

Executive

Members of

Parliament Andrew Turner (C)

Districts

Contents

1 History

1.1 Early history

1.2 Middle Ages

1.3 Civil War

1.4 Seven Years War

1.5 Queen Victoria1.6 Modern history

2 Physical geography and wildlife

2.1 Climate

3 Geology

4 Politics

5 Main towns

6 Culture

6.1 Language and dialect

6.2 Identity

7 Sport

7.1 Cycling

7.2 Rowing

7.3 Sailing

7.4 Trampolining

7.5 Marathon

7.6 Speedway

7.7 Ice hockey

7.8 Hockey

7.9 Football7.10 Cricket

7.11 Island Games

7.12 Music

8 Economy

8.1 Industry and agriculture

8.1.1 Breweries

8.2 Services

8.2.1 Tourism and heritage

8.2.2 Transport

8.2.3 Communications

8.2.4 Media

9 Prisons

10 Education

11 Notable residents

12 Places of interest

13 Overseas names

14 Notable media references

15 See also
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Osborne House and its grounds are

now open to the public

Eugene Manet on the Isle of Wight,

1875 painting by Berthe Morisot.

Henry VIII, who developed the Royal Navy and its permanent base at Portsmouth, fortified the island at Yarmout

Cowes, East Cowes, and Sandown. Much later, after the Spanish Armada in 1588, the threat of Spanish attacks

remained and the outer fortifications of Carisbrooke Castle were built between 1597 and 1602.

Civil War

During the English Civil War King Charles(who was meant to be their leader) fled to the Isle of Wight, believing he

would receive sympathy from the governor, Robert Hammond. Hammond was appalled, and imprisoned the king

Carisbrooke Castle. Charles had originally intended to flee to Jersey, but became lost in the New Forest and

missed the boat.

Seven Years War

Main article: Great Britain in the Seven Years War

During the Seven Years War, the Island was used as a staging post for

British troops departing on expeditions against the French coast such as

the Raid on Rochefort. During 1759 with a planned French invasionimminent, a large force of soldiers were kept there so they could be

moved at speed to any destination on the Southern English coast. The

French called off their invasion following the Battle of Quiberon Bay. A

later French invasion plan involved a landing on the Isle of Wight.[7]

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria made Osborne House on the Isle of Wight her summer

home for many years and, as a result, it became a major holiday resort

for fashionable Victorians including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, JuliaMargaret Cameron, Charles Dickens (who wrote much of David

Copperfield there) as well as the French painter Berthe Morisot and

members of European royalty.

During her reign, in 1897, the world's first radio station[8] was set up by

Marconi, at the Needles Battery, at the western tip of the island.

Modern history

During the Second World War the island was frequently bombed. With its proximity to France the island also had number of observation stations and transmitters, and was the starting-point for one of the earlier Operation Pluto

pipelines to feed fuel to the Normandy landings.

The Needles battery was used as the site for testing and development of the Black Arrow and Black Knight space

rockets, subsequently launched from Woomera, Australia.

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 for being one of the last publi

performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees reaching, by many estimates, 600,000.[9] The
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Geological map

The Isle of Wight is one of the few places in England where the red squirrel is flourishing, with a stable population

(Brownsea Island is another). Unlike most of England, no grey squirrels are to be found on the island, [11] and ther

are rarely [12] reported sightings of wild deer. Instead, rare and protected species such as the dormouse and many

rare bats can be found. The Glanville Fritillary butterfly's distribution in the United Kingdom is largely restricted to

the edges of the crumbling cliffs of the Isle of Wight.

A competition in 2002 named the Pyramidal Orchid as the Isle of Wight's county flower.[13]

The island has one of the most important areas in Europe for dinosaur fossils. The eroding cliffs often reveal

previously hidden remains particularly along the region known as the Back of the Wight.

Climate

Being one of the most southerly parts of the UK, the Isle of Wight has a milder sub-climate than most other areas,

which makes it a popular holiday destination, particularly the resorts in the south east of the island. It also has a

longer growing season than most other areas in the UK. The mean temperature is 13 degrees Celsius averaged

over the whole year, and is 18 degrees in July and August. The microclimate of places such as Lower Ventnor is

influenced by their sheltered position under the cliffs. The Isle of Wight is also sunnier than most parts of the U.K.

and Western Europe, with typically 18002100 hours of sunshine a year, beating even areas of Northern Spain.[1

Climate data for Isle of Wight

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Average high C (F)9

(48)

9

(48)

10

(50)

13

(55)

16

(61)

18

(64)

20

(68)

21

(70)

19

(66)

15

(59)

12

(54)

10

(50)

14.3

(57.8)

Average low C (F)3

(37)

3

(37)

4

(39)

7

(45)

9

(48)

12

(54)

14

(57)

14

(57)

12

(54)

9

(48)

6

(43)

4

(39)

8.1

(46.5)

Precipitation mm (inches)89

(3.5)

61

(2.4)

66

(2.6)

48

(1.89)

56

(2.2)

53

(2.09)

41

(1.61)

56

(2.2)

66

(2.6)

79

(3.11)

84

(3.31)

89

(3.5)

788

(31.01)

[citation needed]

Geology

The Isle of Wight is made up of a wide variety of different rock types

ranging from early Cretaceous times (around 127 million years ago) to

the middle of the Palaeogene (around 30 million years ago). The northern

half of the island is mainly made up of Tertiary clays, with the southern

half formed of Cretaceous rocks (the chalk that forms the central east-

west downs, as well as Upper and Lower Greensands and Wealdenstrata).

All the rocks found on the island are sedimentary made up of mineral

grains from previously existing rocks. These are consolidated to form the

rocks that can be seen on the island today, such as limestone, mudstone

and sandstone. Rocks on the island are very rich in fossils and many of

these can be seen exposed on the beaches as the cliffs erode.
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Blackgang Chine circa 1910

Incumbent Member of Parliament

for the Isle of Wight Andrew

Turner promoting a local issue at

Downing Street.

Cretaceous rocks on the island, usually red, show that the climate was previously hot and dry. This provided

suitable living conditions for dinosaurs. Dinosaur bones and footprints can be seen in and on the rocks exposed

around the island's beaches, especially at Yaverland and Compton Bay. As a result, the isle has been nicknamed

Dinosaur Island.

Along the northern coast of the island there is a rich source of fossilised

shellfish, crocodiles, turtles and mammal bones. The youngest of these

date back to around 30 million years ago.

The geological structure is dominated by a large monocline which causes

the marked change in age of strata from the northern younger Tertiary

beds to the older Cretaceous beds of the south. This gives rise to a dip of

almost 90 degrees in the chalk beds, seen best at the Needles.

About 10,000 years ago, the great ice sheets of the last Ice Age melted

and the sea level rose. Probably about 7,000 years ago, the Isle of Wight

became separated from the mainland.

Politics

Main article: Politics of the Isle of Wight

With a single Member of Parliament and 132,731 permanent residents in

2001, it is the most populous parliamentary constituency in the United

Kingdom (more than 50% above the average of English

constituencies).[n 2][15] Parliament have passed Section 11, Clause 6(1) of

the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 to alter

this[n 3]

The Isle of Wight is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Since the

abolition of its two borough councils in 1995 and the restructuring of the

county council as the Isle of Wight Council, it has been a unitary county.

As a constituency of the House of Commons, it is traditionally a battleground

between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The current Member

of Parliament Andrew Turner is a Conservative, and his predecessor Dr

Peter Brand was a Liberal Democrat.

The Isle of Wight Council election of 2013 saw the Conservative Party lose the majority which they had held since2005. Independent councillors currently hold 20 of the 40 seats in the council.[17]

There have been small regionalist movements: the Vectis National Party and the Isle of Wight Party; but they have

attracted little support in elections.

Main towns

Main article: List of places on the Isle of Wight
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Newport the main town & the high

street

Graveyard on the grounds of the

church in the town of Brading, Isle o

Wight

Newport, in the centre of the Island, is the county town of the Isle of Wight and the Island's main shopping

area. Recent developments include a new bus station with retail

complex and a new retail park on the outskirts. Located next to

the River Medina, Newport Quay was a busy port until the mid

19th century, but has now been mainly converted into art galleries,

flats and other meeting places.

Ryde, the island's largest town with a population of around

30,000, is in the north east of the island. It is a Victorian town withan 875 yards long pier and 3 miles of beaches, attracting many

tourists. Every year there is a Ryde Carnival in two parts, spread

over more than one day: one in the daytime, and one at night with

many coloured lights. Ryde is also home to the ice hockey club

Wightlink Raiders, who play in the third-tier English National Ice

Hockey League.

Cowes is the location of the annual Cowes Week and an international sailing centre. It is also the home of th

record-setting sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur.

East Cowes is famous for Osborne House, Norris Castle and as the home from 1929 to 1964 of Saunders

Roe, the historic aircraft, flying boat, rocket and hovercraft company.

Sandown is another popular seaside resort. It is home to the Isle of Wight Zoo, the Dinosaur Isle geologica

museum and one of the island's two 18-hole golf courses.

Shanklin, just south of Sandown, also attracts tourists, with its sandy beaches, Shanklin Chine and the old

village.

Ventnor, built on the steep slopes of St Boniface Down on the south coast of the island, leads down to a

picturesque bay that attracts many tourists. Recent developments include Ventnor Haven, a small harbour

built around a Victorian-style bandstand.

In addition there are smaller towns along the coasts, particularly on the

eastern side of the island. There are also a number of smaller villages.

Some of these (for example, Godshill) also attract many tourists.

Culture

Main article: Culture of the Isle of Wight

Language and dialect

The accent of the Isle of Wight is similar to the traditional dialect ofHampshire, featuring the dropping of some consonants and an emphasis

on longer vowels. It is similar to the West Country dialects heard in SW England, but less removed in sound from

the Estuary English of the SE. As with many other traditional southern English regional dialects and accents, a stron

island accent is not now commonly heard, and, as speakers tend to be older, this decline is likely to continue.

The island also has its own local and regional words. Some words, includinggrockle (visitor, tourist hence

rockle-can, tour coach) and nipper/nips (a younger male person), are still commonly used and are shared with

neighbouring areas of the mainland. A few are unique to the island, for example overner(a mainlander who has

settled on the island) and caulkhead(someone born on the island and born from long-established island stock).
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Newclose County Cricket Ground

The Isle of Wight Marathon is the United Kingdom's oldest continuously held marathon, having been run every ye

since 1957.[24] The course starts in Ryde, passing through Newport, Shanklin and Sandown, before finishing back

in Ryde. It is an undulating course with a total climb of 1,506 feet.

Speedway

The Island is home to the Isle of Wight Islanders speedway team, who compete in the sport's third division, the

National League. The club was founded in 1996, with a first-night attendance of 1,740.

Ice hockey

The Island is also home to the Wightlink Raiders, an ice hockey team based at Ryde Arena. They compete in the

1st Tier of the English National Ice Hockey League, the 3rd Division in the country. There is also an amateur team

the Vectis Tigers of the 2nd Tier English National Ice Hockey League, and four youth teams including the Isle of

Wight Wildcats, all based at Ryde Arena.

Hockey

The Isle of Wight Hockey Club run three senior teams and a junior side, with the 1st XI competing in Hampshire's

top division, just one below the regional leagues. The island also has a ladies teamthe Vectis Ladieswhich is a

separate organisation from the IW Hockey Club. Ventnor Middle School on the Isle of Wight runs a successful

hockey set-up, producing a number of players who have since gone on to play at high standards.

Football

The now-disbanded Ryde Sports F.C. founded in 1888 and became one of the eight founder members of the

Hampshire League in 1896. There are several other non-league clubs such as Newport (IW) F.C. There is an Isle

of Wight Saturday Football League with three divisions, and a rugby union club,[25] plus various other sporting

teams.[26] Beach football is particularly prevalent on the island and has several of the nation's premier clubs with

almost all of the England Beach Soccer team made up from players from the island. Many of the stadiums are used

when the island hosts the Island Games as it has done twice.

Cricket

The Isle of Wight is the 39th official county in English cricket, and the Isle

of Wight Cricket Board organise an internal cricket league between

various local clubs. Ventnor Cricket Club compete in the Southern

Premier League, and have won the Second Division several times in

recent years. There is a new County Ground near Newport,[27][28][29]

which held its first match on 6 September 2008.[30] As of November

2010, the Isle of Wight Cricket Board have been in discussion with the

Minor Counties Cricket Association and the England and Wales Cricket

Board regarding proposals to enter a side in the Minor Counties

tournaments.[31] The island has recently produced some notable

cricketers, such as Danny Briggs, who plays county cricket for

Hampshire County Cricket Club and is a member of the England Lions.
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A satellite photograph of the Isle of

Wight and the Solent

Hampshire have played a number of first-class matches on the island, at J Samuel White's Ground (originally built

and owned by J. Samuel White Shipbuilders) and the Victoria Recreation Ground.

Island Games

The Isle of Wight competes in the biennial Island Games, which it hosted in 1993 and again in 2011 with events

taking place across the island.

Music

The Isle of Wight is home to the Isle of Wight Festival and Bestival. The Isle of Wight is also the home of the band

the Bees. Recently they have been having more national success and often perform at smaller concerts on the

island. The band Trixie's Big Red Motorbike[32] as well as Mark King of Level 42 also came from the Isle of

Wight. Singer/Songwriter Gareth Icke also spent a lot of his adult life on the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight has

also hosted a one day festival called 'Summer Madness'. It started in 2009 when Madness headlined it; in 2010

Paul Weller headlined. In January 2011 it was reported that the promoter of Summer Madness was insolvent.

Economy

This is a table of the trend in regional gross value added by the Isle of

Wight economy at current basic prices by the Office for National

Statistics with figures in millions of pounds.[33]

YearRegional Gross

Value added[34]Agriculture [35] Industry[36] Services[37]

1995 831 28 218 585

2000 1,202 27 375 800

2003 1,491 42 288 1,161

Industry and agriculture

The largest industry on the Isle of Wight is tourism, but the Island has a strong agricultural heritage, including sheep

and dairy farming and the growing of arable crops. Traditional agricultural commodities are more difficult to marke

off the island because of transport costs, but island farmers have managed successfully to exploit some specialist

markets. The high price of these products overcomes the transport costs. One of the most successful agricultural

sectors at present is the growing of crops under cover, particularly salad crops, including tomatoes and cucumbersThe Isle of Wight has a longer growing season than much of the United Kingdom and this also favours such crops.

Garlic has been successfully grown in Newchurch for many years, and is even exported to France. This has led to

the establishment of an annual Garlic Festival at Newchurch, which is one of the largest events of the island's annu

calendar. The favourable climate has led to the success of vineyards, including one of the oldest in the British Isles,

at Adgestone near Sandown.[38] Lavender is also grown for its oil.[39] The largest sector of agriculture has been

dairying, but due to low milk prices, and strict UK legislation for UK milk producers, the dairy industry has

declined. There were nearly one-hundred and fifty dairy producers of various sizes in the mid-eighties, but this has

now dwindled down to just twenty-four. Due to modern farming practices, the Island has noted increased levels o

pesticide poisoning in local farmers and other local residents living near crops and vineyards.[40]
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The making of sailcloth, boats and other connected maritime industry has long been associated with the island,

although this has somewhat diminished in recent years. Cowes is still home to various small marine-related

companies such as boat-builders.

Although they have reduced the extent of the plants and workforce, including the sale of the main site, GKN

operates what was once the British Hovercraft Corporation a subsidiary of, and known latterly, when

manufacturing focus changed, as Westland Aircraft. Prior to its purchase by Westland, it was the independent

company known as Saunders-Roe. It remains one of the most notable historic firms, having produced many of the

flying boats, and the world's first hovercraft.

The island's major manufacturing activity today is in composite materials, used by boat-builders and the wind

turbine manufacturer Vestas, which has a wind turbine blade factory and testing facilities in Newport and East

Cowes.

Bembridge Airfield is the home of Britten-Norman, manufacturers of the Islander and Trislander aircraft. This is

shortly to become the site of the European assembly line for Cirrus light aircraft. The Norman Aeroplane Company

is a smaller aircraft manufacturing company operating in Sandown. There are have been three other aircraft

manufacturers that built planes on the island.[41]

In 2005, Northern Petroleum began exploratory drilling for oil, with its Sandhills-2 borehole at Porchfield but

ceased operations in October that year, after failing to find significant reserves.

Breweries

There are three breweries on the island. Goddards Brewery in Ryde opened in 1993.[42] David Yates, who was

head brewer of the Island Brewery, started brewing as Yates Brewery at the Inn at St Lawrence in 2000. [43] The

Island Brewery, located in Shalfleet, was formed in 1993 by Mick Kennel and Dave Coleman.

Ventnor Brewery, which closed in 2009, was the last incarnation of Burt's Brewery, which had been brewing onthe island since the 1840s in Ventnor.[44] Until the 1960s most pubs were owned by Mews Brewery sited in

Newport near the old railway station, but it closed and the pubs taken over by Strong's and then by Whitbread. B

some accounts Mews beer was apt to be rather cloudy and dark. They pioneered the use of cans in the 19th

century for export to British India. The old brewery was derelict for many years but was then severely damaged in

a spectacular fire.

Services

Tourism and heritage

See also: List of tourist attractions in the Isle of Wight

The heritage of the island is a major asset, which has for many years kept its economy going. Holidays focused on

natural heritage, including both wildlife and geology, are becoming a growing alternative to the traditional British

seaside holiday, which went into decline in the second half of the 20th century, due to the increased affordability o

air travel to alternative destinations.
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The Isle of Wight is part of the BBC South region and the ITV Meridian region.

Important broadcasting facilities on Isle of Wight are Chillerton Down transmitting station, whose mast is the tallest

structure on Isle of Wight and Rowridge transmitting station.

Prisons

The geography of the island, and its location near the densely populated south of England, led to it hosting threeprisons: Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst, all located outside Newport near the main road to Cowes. Albany and

Parkhurst were among the few Category A prisons in the UK until they were downgraded in the 1990s. The

downgrading of Parkhurst was precipitated by a major escape: three prisoners (two murderers and a blackmailer)

made their way out of the prison on 3 January 1995 for four days of freedom before being recaptured. Parkhurst

especially enjoyed notoriety as one of the toughest jails in the United Kingdom and housed many notable inmates,

including the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, New Zealand drug lord Terry Clark and the Kray twins.

Camp Hill is located to the west of, and adjacent to, Albany and Parkhurst, on the very edge of Parkhurst Forest,

having been converted first to a borstal and later to a Category C prison. It was built on the site of an army camp

(both Albany and Parkhurst were barracks); there is a small estate of tree-lined roads with well-proportioned

officers' quarters (of varying grandeur according to rank, but now privately owned) to the south and east. Camp

Hill closed as a prison in March 2013.

The management of all three prisons was merged into a single administration, under the name of HMP Isle of Wigh

in April 2009, with Camp Hill closing in 2013.

Education

Main article: Education on the Isle of Wight

There are sixty-nine Local Education Authority-maintained schools on the Isle of Wight, and two independent

schools. As a rural community, many of these schools are small, with average numbers of pupils lower than in man

urban areas. There are currently primary schools, middle schools and high schools. However, education reforms

have led to plans for closures (for full details on these see Education reforms on the Isle of Wight). There is also th

Isle of Wight College, which is located on the outskirts of Newport.

From September 2010, there is a transition period from the "3-tier system" of primary, middle and high schools.

Some schools have now closed their doors, such as Chale C.E. Primary School. Other schools have become

"federated", such as Brading C.E. Primary School and St Helen's Primary School. Christ the King College started

as a "middle school" but is being converted into a high school so that eventually it will have a sixth form.

From September 2011, there will be 5 new schools, with an age range of 11 to 18 years, which will replace the

existing high schools.

When the transition is complete, there will be fewer schools on the Isle of Wight.

Notable residents

Main article: List of Isle of Wight people
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Notable residents have included:

Raymond Allen, scriptwriter

Indie rock group the Bees are from the Isle of Wight.

E. Power Biggs, concert organist

Comedian Scott Anderson (compere for Bestival, Camp Bestival and the Isle of Wight Festival.

Julia Margaret Cameron, a Victorian portrait and creative photographer, lived at Dimbola Lodge, which is

now a museum dedicated to her work.

Charles I of England was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle

Irish Republican Thomas Clarke

Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, lived in East Cowes while it was being developed by

Saunders-Roe

Ray Cokes, MTV presenter and actor

Charles Dickens rented Winterbourne, in Bonchurch in the summer of 1849.

Dave Ellison, Creator/writer/producer of the award winning children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank

Cardell 'Scum' Goodman, late 17th century actor, murderer, highwayman and Jacobite conspirator, was th

son of Robert Hooke's father's predecessor as vicar of Freshwater.

Marius Goring, actor, lived on the Island as a child - he was born in NewportBear Grylls, survival expert, motivational speaker and Chief Scout.

Sheila Hancock, actress

Thomas Harrison, Regicide of Charles I and Fifth Monarchist leader was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle

by Cromwell as were other Fifth Monarchy Men, John Rogers and Christopher Feake.

Peter de Heyno, defended the Carisbrooke Castle 1377 against French / Castilian troops

Robert Hooke, a 17th-century natural philosopher and polymath

Geoffrey Hughes, English actor was its Deputy Lieutenant.[51]

Kieran Page - Professional Road and Track Cyclist

David Icke, TV presenter, author, conspiracy theorist

Jeremy Irons, actor

Phill Jupitus, comedian

Laura Michelle Kelly, Olivier Award-winner for her role as Mary Poppins in the world premiere of the Ma

Poppins musical and film actress playing Lucy Barker in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd

Mimi Khalvati, Iranian poet was educated at Upper Chine School, near Shanklin

Stuart Hobday, singer with '60s band Mike Stuart Span and BBC Radio 2 producer

Mark King, lead singer and bassist for '80s/'90s pop-funk band Level 42.

Allan Lake, radio presenter

John Milne, geologist and mining engineer, credited with inventing the horizontal pendulum seismograph.

Anthony Minghella, Academy Awardwinning film director, playwright and screenwriterDavid Niven, Actor, Novelist.

Henry Sewell, first Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Victorian poet, spent his boyhood at his parents home East Dene, in

Bonchurch.

Alfred Tennyson, who was Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria, lived at Freshwater and became Baron

Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight.

Alan Titchmarsh, a British gardener, was High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight in 2008-09.[52]

Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and Nobel Prize winner, lived in Marconi Cottage at St. Catherine's Lighthous
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Key

Abbey/Priory/Cathedra

Accessible open space

Amusement/Theme Par

Castle

Country Park

English Heritage

Forestry Commission

Heritage railway

Historic House

Museum (free/not free)

National Trust

Theatre

Zoo

Classic Boat Museum

in late 1890. He transmitted the first wireless message across open water from Alum Bay in Totland in

1897.[53]

Anneka Rice, TV personality

Kelly Sotherton, Olympic heptathlete

Ellen MacArthur, solo and long-distance yachtswoman.

Mick Poole, World Masters Champion, European Championships Silver Medalist, USA Masters

Champion, 3 times British Open Champion, Great Britain Team Captain and GB national coach in wrestling

Mark Fox, businessman and journalist.Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (monarchs), built and lived at Osbourne House

Places of interest

Alum Bay

Appuldurcombe House

Amazon World Zoo

Blackgang Chine

Brading Roman VillaCarisbrooke Castle , where King Charles I was imprisoned

Classic Boat Museum, East Cowes

Dimbola Lodge , home of Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron

Dinosaur Isle

Fort Victoria

Godshill village and model village

Isle of Wight Bus & Coach Museum

Isle of Wight Steam Railway

Isle of Wight Zoo, Yaverland

Medina Theatre, home to the island's entertainment including music andperformances.

The Needles , which is near "The Old Battery" museum and Old Look-out

Tower tea-room

Osborne House , where Queen Victoria and her husband,

Prince Albert had a country residence

Quarr Abbey

Robin Hill

Botanic Gardens, Ventnor

Yarmouth Castle , associated with King Henry VIII

Overseas names

The Isle of Wight has given its names to many parts of former colonies,

most notably Isle of Wight County in Virginia founded by settlers from the island in the 17th century. Its county se

is a town named Isle of Wight.

Other notable examples include:
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Blackgang Chine

Isle of Wight Bus Museum

Isle of Wight - an island off Maryland, USA

Dunnose Head, West Falkland

Ventnor, Cowes on Philip Island, Victoria, Australia

Carisbrook, Seaview, Victoria, Australia

Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Shanklin, Sandown, New Hampshire, USA

Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA

Notable media references

The 1980s pop group Level 42 is from the Isle of Wight.

The Northumbrian scholar, Bede, recorded the arrival of

Christianity on the Isle of Wight in the year 686, when the

population was massacred and replaced by Christians.[54]

The Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four", written by Paul

McCartney, refers to renting a cottage on the Isle of Wight (if it's

not too dear).[55]

The Isle of Wight is called The Islandin some editions of Thomas

Hardy's novels in his fictional Wessex.

There is a running joke in radio sitcom The Navy Larkinvolving

Sub-Lieutenant Phillips inability to navigate and subsequently tail

"the Isle of Wight ferry".

The Isle of Wight is the setting of Julian Barnes's novelEngland,

England.

The island also features in John Wyndham's novel The Day of the

Triffids and Simon Clark's sequel to it, The Night of the Triffids.

In the radio seriesNebulous, the Isle of Wight has been

accidentally disintegrated by Professor Nebulous while he was trying to move it slightly to the left to give it

more sunlight, on Janril 57, 2069.[56]

Bob Dylan recorded the songs "Like a Rolling Stone", "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)", "Minstrel

Boy", and "She Belongs to Me" for the album Self Portraitlive on the Isle of Wight.

The 1980 dramatization of Dennis Potter's work Blade on the Feather was filmed on the Island.

The Isle of Wight is the setting in D.H. Lawrence's bookThe Trespasser, filmed for TV in 1981 on locatio

In the 1966 novel Colossus, the entire island is selected for the development of a new base by the

supercomputer, Colossus.

The Isle of Wight is the setting of Graham Masterton's bookPrey.Parts ofFrgiles (Fragile: A Ghost Story), a 2005 film starring Calista Flockhart, were filmed on the

island.

Mrs. Brown - 1997 - with Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly was filmed at Osborne and Chale.

The 1973 British film That'll be the Day starring David Essex and Ringo Starr, which was written by Ray

Connolly and directed by Claude Whatham, and set in the late '50s/early '60s and was partially filmed on th

Isle of Wight including scenes shot in Ryde (notably, Cross Street) and Shanklin (beach).

Something to Hide - 1972 - (US title Shattered) starring Peter Finch was filmed near Cowes. There is als

a scene on the Red Funnel ferry.

Karl Marx visited the Isle of Wight on numerous occasions while he was writing the Communist Manifesto.
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The Commodore 64 game 'Spirit of the Stones' by John Worsley was set on the Isle of Wight.[57]

In the radio panel game Genius, someone proposed that to increase Isle of Wight tourism, it should be mad

symmetrical, even though it would involve destroying Ventnor.[58]

In theBlackadder IIepisode "Potato", Blackadder's plot to sail to France is thwarted when it turns out tha

the captain of his ship is completely incompetent at navigation. Because of this, every expedition the captain

had organised so far had been limited to "sailing around the Isle of Wight until everyone gets dizzy", and then

sailing back home to Southampton.

The song "Island in the Rain", by The Men They Couldn't Hang is about the Isle of Wight.In S.M. Stirling's novel The Protector's War, in which all high energy technology ceased to function, the Isle

of Wight became the refuge of the British monarchy and government. After the holocaust that followed, the

island was the base for re-population of England and the European mainland whose populations had

perished except for cannibals and savages.

Setting of Jane Feather's novel, "The Least Likely Bride."

The island is featured as the location of Vectis Abbey in Glenn Cooper's novels Library of the Deadand

Book of Souls.

In the film "Shaun of the Dead", Philip (played by Bill Nighy), suffering from the initial symptoms of the

zombie transformation, explains to his wife that he had received his inoculations prior to a trip to the Isle of

Wight.

At the start of the third series ofAshes to Ashes, Gene Hunt explains that he hid out for a time on the Isle o

White while wanted for attempted murder of Alex Drake at the end of the preceding series. As for life there

he remarked, "That was shit."

One of the manga associated with the multimedia franchise Strike Witches, Strike Witches: One-Winged

Witches ( Strike Witches - Katayoku no Majotachi) focuses on

the Isle of Wight Detachment Group and is set on the island in the series's alternative universe.

See also

List of civil parishes on the Isle of Wight

List of places on the Isle of Wight

List of High Sheriffs of the Isle of Wight

List of Lord Lieutenants of the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight gasification facility

Isle of Wight Rifles

Yaverland Battery

Wight, one of the sea areas of the British Shipping Forecast, named after the island.

Notes and references

Notes

1. ^ As well as the former Princess Beatrice during World War II, most otherwise notable was Lord Mountbatten

1969-1974, after which he became Lord Lieutenant until his assassination in 1979.

2. ^ In 1832 the Act popularly referred to as the Great Reform Act or Reform Act of 1832 established a single MP

for the Isle of Wight rather than six until that date, including four for the two rotten boroughs which made it per

capita more over-represented than Cornwall which had at least five rotten boroughs.
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