Villages & towns in Isle of WightIsle of Wight, England

Harbour village at the island's eastern tip, with houseboats, a windmill from about 1700 and a lifeboat station out over the sea

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Undercliff village east of Ventnor with an 11th-century church, Swinburne's grave and a pond given by Stacpoole

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Winkle Street's row of old cottages facing a stream and a stone sheepwash, with a mostly 13th-century church nearby

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Sailing town on the Medina, home of Cowes Week and the Royal Yacht Squadron, with a chain ferry to East Cowes

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Thatched cottages round a hilltop church with a rare medieval Lily Cross wall painting, and a model village open since 1952

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Thatched cottages, tea rooms and the Crab Inn at the top of Shanklin Chine, a wooded ravine dropping to the beach

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Tiny harbour town where the Lymington ferry lands, with Henry VIII's last coastal fort and a timber pier from 1876

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The old King's Town, with stocks and a whipping post at its Old Town Hall and wooden knight effigies in St Mary's

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Thatched stone cottages below Shorwell Down and a church with a big 15th-century wall painting of St Christopher

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