Bembridge
Bembridge is a village and civil parish located on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, leading to the implausible claim by some residents that Bembridge is the largest village in England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,690 residents
- Description: village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK
- Also known as: “Bembridge, Isle of Wight”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Helens Fort and Bembridge Windmill.
St Helens Fort
Photo: Editor5807, CC BY 3.0.
St Helens Fort is a sea fort in the Solent close to the Isle of Wight, one of the Palmerston Forts near Portsmouth. It was built as a result of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom of 1859, in order to protect the St Helens anchorage.
Bembridge Windmill
Photo: Nancy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knowle Mill, better known today as Bembridge Windmill, is a Grade I listed, preserved tower mill at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England.
Bembridge Lifeboat Station
Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bembridge Lifeboat Station is located in the village of Bembridge on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. The station is located on the eastern approaches to The Solent, south of the area known as Spithead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brading and St Helens.
Brading
Town
Photo: Editor5807, Public domain.
The ancient 'Kynges Towne' of Brading is the main town of the civil parish of the same name. The ecclesiastical parish of Brading used to cover about a tenth of the Isle of Wight. Brading is situated 2½ miles west of Bembridge.
St Helens
Village
Photo: Naturenet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Helens is a village and civil parish located on the eastern side of the Isle of Wight. The village developed around village greens. This is claimed to be the largest in England but some say it is the second largest.
Seaview
Village
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seaview is a small Edwardian resort located on the north-eastern corner of the Isle of Wight, overlooking the Solent. The village is popular with tourists and is 2+1⁄3 miles from the town of Ryde, where most tourists reach the island by ferry or hovercraft. Seaview is situated 2½ miles northwest of Bembridge.
Bembridge
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Isle of Wight, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6887° or 50° 41′ 19″ northLongitude
-1.0849° or 1° 5′ 6″ westPopulation
3,690Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)IATA airport code
BBPUnited Nations Location Code
GB BBPOpen location code
9C2WMWQ8+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1547559729OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2655925Wikidata ID
Q2624470
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Bembridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bembridge”
- Bengali: “বেমব্রিজ”
- Bulgarian: “Бембридж”
- Cebuano: “Bembridge (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Bembridge”
- Chinese: “Bembridge”
- Chinese: “本布里奇”
- Chinese: “班姆布利茲”
- Dutch: “Bembridge”
- French: “Bembridge”
- German: “Bembridge”
- Gujarati: “બેમબ્રિજ”
- Irish: “Bembridge”
- Italian: “Bembridge”
- Japanese: “ベンブリッジ”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಂಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್”
- Korean: “베브리지”
- Ladin: “Bembridge”
- Lithuanian: “Bembridžė”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bembridge”
- Persian: “بمبریج”
- Polish: “Bembridge”
- Portuguese: “Bembridge”
- Russian: “Бембридж”
- Slovenian: “Bembridge”
- Spanish: “Bembridge”
- Swedish: “Bembridge”
- Tamil: “பெப்பிரிட்ஜ்”
- Telugu: “బెంబ్రిడ్జి”
- Turkish: “Bembridge”
- Urdu: “بیمبرج”
- Welsh: “Bembridge”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bembridge”. Photo: fionamcallisterphotography, CC BY 2.0.