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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.
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.
The house, which dates back to 1760 and was formerly known as Norton Lodge, was acquired by Rear Admiral Graham Hamond in the first half of the 19th century. [1] It remained in the hands of the Græme-Hamond family until 1901 [2] and then between the wars, as the Norton Chalet Hotel, it was owned by the Yelland family. [2]
Norton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Freshwater, on the outskirts of Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, England. It is situated in the West of the island and has a coast on the Solent. It is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Lymington, Hampshire.
The station opened on 1 July 1913 after a conflict between the FYN and the Isle of Wight Central Railway, [2] and closed 10 years later on the creation of the Southern, [3] when Freshwater trains reverted to using Newport's main station. During its inauspicious existence passengers had a short inconvenient walk between the two rival termini. [4]
Lymington Pier railway station serves the harbour area of Lymington in Hampshire, England.It is 98 miles 15 chains (158.0 km) measured from London Waterloo and is the terminus of the Lymington Branch Line from Brockenhurst and provides a connection with ferry services to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.
St. James' Church, Yarmouth is a Grade II* listed [1] parish church in the Church of England located in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. History