Islands · South East England
Isle of Wight weekend
The Needles, Osborne House, and Britain's dinosaur coast.
The Isle of Wight is just 23 miles by 13, accessible by 40-minute ferry from Portsmouth or Southampton. A weekend covers Osborne House (Queen Victoria's seaside retreat), Carisbrooke Castle (where Charles I was imprisoned), the Needles chalk stacks at the western tip, and the Wight Coast Path's Tennyson Down stretch.
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Q9679 — island, county and unitary authority area of England, United Kingdom.
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Isle of Sheppey
Isle of Sheppey — island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary.
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Brownsea Island
Brownsea Island — island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, UK.
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Hayling Island
Hayling Island — island off the south coast of England.
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HMNB Portsmouth
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base
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Burrow Island
Burrow Island — tidal island in Gosport overlooking Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England, UK.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Chalk cliffs facing the narrowest part of the English Channel.
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The Ridgeway
Britain's oldest road — 5,000-year-old prehistoric track from Avebury to the Chilterns.
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Beachy Head
Britain's highest sea cliff (162 m) on the Sussex coast.
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Seven Sisters Cliffs
Seven chalk sea cliffs in the South Downs National Park.
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Thames Path
184-mile National Trail along the Thames from source to the Barrier.
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The Needles
Three chalk stacks at the western tip of the Isle of Wight.