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Yarmouth Pier is a Victorian pleasure pier, located in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. It is the longest wooden pier in England [according to whom?], and frequently requires restoration due to the relatively short lifespan of the wooden piles. Following its latest restoration scheme, it reopened to the public in 2008.
The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises near the beach at Freshwater Bay, on the south coast, and flows only a few miles north to Yarmouth where it meets the Solent. Most of the river is a tidal estuary. Its headwaters have been truncated by erosion of the south coast.
Yarmouth is a town, port and civil parish [3] in the west of the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. The town grew near the river crossing, originally a ferry, which was replaced with a road bridge in 1863.
Isle of Wight 50°42′11″N 1°30′50″W / 50.703°N 1.514°W / 50.703; Norton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Freshwater , on the outskirts of Yarmouth , in the Isle of Wight , England.
Freshwater is a large village and civil parish [3] [4] at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The southern, coastal part of the village is Freshwater Bay, named for the adjacent small cove. [5] Freshwater sits at the western end of the region known as the Back of the Wight or the West Wight, a popular tourist area. [6]
The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St. Catherine's Down near Niton, [1] close to the southern tip of the island. It flows across the Lower Cretaceous rocks of the eastern side of the island, through the gap in the central Upper Cretaceous chalk ridge of the Island at Yarbridge, then across the now drained ...
As of 2020 there are more than 80 former places of worship on the Isle of Wight, England's largest island.The diamond-shaped, 146-square-mile (380 km 2) island, which lies in the English Channel and is separated from the county of Hampshire by The Solent, has a population of around 140,000 spread across several small towns and dozens of villages.
Colwell Bay (grid reference) is a bay in the west of the Isle of Wight.It is located between the towns of Totland and Yarmouth.The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End (Fort Albert) the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle situated at the end of a long peninsula just under a mile (1500 metres) to the northwest.