Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is an island and county five miles off the southern coast of England. The island has long been an excellent place for an upmarket but traditional seaside holiday, with beaches and towns that were very popular in Victorian times.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Newport and Cowes.
Newport
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Newport is the county town of the Isle of Wight. It is in the centre of the island on the River Medina. It is the second largest town on the island, with a population of 24,000, slightly fewer than Ryde.
Cowes
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Cowes is a town on the Isle of Wight in southern England. It is a lovely beach and a wonderful place to visit if you are on holiday to the Isle of Wight.
Yarmouth
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Yarmouth is an attractive little town at the western tip of the Isle of Wight, just offshore of the South East of England. Everything in Yarmouth seems to be on a small scale; small narrow streets nestle against a small castle and harbour, and the ferry terminal is actually built against the castle walls.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Ventnor and Ryde.
Ventnor
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The town of Ventnor on the south coast of the Isle of Wight was a Victorian spa, and has an architectural style different to the rest of the island. In 2011, it was home to 6,000 people.
Ryde
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Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 24,096 according to the 2021 Census.
Bembridge
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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.
Wootton Bridge
Wootton Bridge lies on the northeast coast of the Isle of Wight, and is situated almost midway between the island’s historical capital of Newport and the Victorian gateway of Ryde.
Sandown and Shanklin
Sandown and Shanklin are seaside towns on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight
- Type: Region with 140,000 residents
- Description: island, county and unitary authority area of England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Isle of Wight”, “I. of Wight”, “I. Wight”, “Iktis”, “Island of Wight”, “Ouiktis”, “Wight”, “Wight I.”, “Wight Island”, “Wiht”, and “Wit”
- Neighbors: Hampshire
- Categories: island, ceremonial county of England, unitary authority area in England, and administrative county
- Location: South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Isle of Wight” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eiland Wight”
- Arabic: “وايت”
- Armenian: “Ուայթ կղզի”
- Asturian: “Islla de Wight”
- Azerbaijani: “Vayt adası”
- Balinese: “Nusa Wight”
- Basque: “Wight”
- Bavarian: “Insel Wight”
- Bavarian: “Insl Wight”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Уайт”
- Belarusian: “востраў Ўайт”
- Belarusian: “Уайт”
- Belarusian: “Ўайт”
- Bengali: “আইল অফ ওয়াইট”
- Breton: “Enez Wight”
- Bulgarian: “Уайт”
- Burmese: “ဝိုက်ကျွန်း”
- Burmese: “အယ်လော့ဝိုက်”
- Catalan: “illa de Wight”
- Catalan: “Illa de Wight”
- Cebuano: “Isle of Wight”
- Chinese: “Wight Tó”
- Chinese: “威特島”
- Chinese: “怀特岛郡”
- Corsican: “Isula di Wight”
- Croatian: “Otok Wight”
- Croatian: “Wight”
- Czech: “Wight”
- Danish: “Isle of Wight”
- Dutch: “Eiland Wight”
- Dutch: “Wight”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Wight”
- Esperanto: “Isle of Wight”
- Estonian: “Wight”
- Faroese: “Isle of Wight”
- Finnish: “Isle of Wight”
- French: “île de Wight”
- French: “Île de Wight”
- French: “Wight”
- Galician: “Illa de Wight”
- Galician: “Wight”
- Georgian: “უაიტი”
- German: “Insel Wight”
- German: “Isle of Wight”
- German: “Wight”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ουάιτ”
- Gujarati: “આઇલ ઓફ વાઈટ”
- Hebrew: “האי וייט”
- Hindi: “आइल ऑफ़ वाइट”
- Hungarian: “Wight-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Wighteyja”
- Ido: “Insulo di Wight”
- Ido: “Insulo Wight”
- Indonesian: “Isle of Wight”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Wight”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Wight”
- Interlingua: “Isle of Wight”
- Irish: “Inis Iocht”
- Italian: “Isola di Wight”
- Italian: “Wight”
- Japanese: “ワイト島”
- Kannada: “ಐಲ್ ಆಫ್ ವಿಟ್”
- Khmer: “កោះវ៉ាយធ៍”
- Khmer: “វ៉ែត”
- Korean: “아일오브와이트주”
- Ladin: “Isle of Wight”
- Latin: “Vecta”
- Latin: “Vectis”
- Latvian: “Vaita”
- Latvian: “Vaitas sala”
- Lithuanian: “Vaito sala”
- Lower Sorbian: “Isle of Wight”
- Luxembourgish: “Insel Wight”
- Macedonian: “Вајт”
- Macedonian: “Остров Вајт”
- Malay: “Pulau Wight”
- Manx: “Ellan Eeaght”
- Marathi: “आईल ऑफ वाइट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wight Tó”
- Mirandese: “Ilha de Wight”
- Narom: “Wique”
- Northern Frisian: “Eilun Wight”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Isle of Wight”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wight”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isle of Wight”
- Norwegian: “Isle of Wight”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Wight”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isla de Wight”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wiht”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ƿiht”
- Ossetian: “Сакъадах Уайт”
- Panjabi: “ਆੲੀਲ ਆਫ਼ ਵਾੲੀਟ”
- Panjabi: “ਆਇਲ ਆਫ ਵਾਈਟ”
- Persian: “جزیره وایت”
- Polish: “Wight”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Wight”
- Romanian: “Insula Wight”
- Russian: “Вайт”
- Russian: “Остров Уайт”
- Russian: “Уайт (остров)”
- Russian: “Уайт”
- Sardinian: “Isula de Wight”
- Sardinian: “Ìsula de Wight”
- Scots: “Island o Wight”
- Scots: “Isle o Wight”
- Scots: “Wight”
- Serbian: “Острво Вајт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Isle of Wight”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula di Wight”
- Slovak: “Wight”
- Slovenian: “Isle of Wight”
- Slovenian: “Otok Wight”
- Spanish: “Isla de Wight”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Wight”
- Swedish: “Isle of Wight”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Wight”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираи Уайт”
- Tamil: “வைட்டுத் தீவு”
- Telugu: “ఇస్లే అఫ్ వెయిట్”
- Thai: “ไอล์ออฟไวต์”
- Turkish: “Wight Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Вайт (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Вайт”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Вайт”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Уайт”
- Ukrainian: “Уайт (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Уайт”
- Upper Sorbian: “Isle of Wight”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wight”
- Urdu: “آئل آف ویٹ”
- Venetian: “ìzoła de Wight”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Wight”
- Vlaams: “Eiland Wight”
- Vlaams: “Wight”
- Volapük: “Isle of Wight”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Wight”
- Welsh: “Gueid”
- Welsh: “Guith”
- Welsh: “Ynys Wyth”
- Western Frisian: “Eilân Wight”
- Western Panjabi: “آئل آف وائٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “怀特岛郡”
- Yiddish: “אינזל פון ווייט”
- Yue Chinese: “威特島”
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