Bradt Isle of Wight Guidebook
Isle of Wight Slow Travel guide. Expert local insights and holiday advice featuring walking, wildlife, birdwatching, accommodation, restaurants, beaches, local food and festivals. Wide-ranging coverage includes Tennyson Down, Sandown Bay, Ryde, Newport, Cowes, Farringford, Compton Down, Bembridge, Ventnor, fossil-hunting and St Catherine’s Oratory.
Edition: 2
Number of pages: 344
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Bradt Isle of Wight Guide
The latest edition of the most detailed guide to the Isle of Wight.
About this guide to the Isle of Wight
Part of Bradt’s distinctive, award-winning series of ‘Slow’ travel guides to UK regions, the updated Bradt Isle of Wight Guidebook remains by far the longest and most detailed guidebook to this charming English island.
Written by expert travel journalist Mark Rowe, who has visited the island over 30 times since childhood, it is the perfect companion to help you get the most out of your visit, replete with not just all the practical information you could need, but also all the intimate detail, anecdote and insider tips to make time spent there deeply rewarding.
The Isle of Wight is astonishingly rich in wildlife, natural beauty, history and archaeology. This is all the more unexpected for it being so close to the densely populated southern edges of England.
Covering just 25 miles by 13 miles, no other equivalent-sized area of Britain boasts such varied landscapes (downland, estuaries, hills, saltmarshes, meadows, riverine, beach) or such a concentration of food producers (50+ independents).
Here there is a real island culture, a creative spirit celebrating the independent and idiosyncratic. There is urban fascination too, including high-class museums, Victoriana and Cowes – a town famous for its sailing jamboree, but also offering narrow medieval streets and one-of-a-kind local shops.
Bradt’s Isle of Wight suggests where to go to see red squirrels and the recently reintroduced white-tailed eagles, where to hire e-bikes, where to go foraging, where is best for families and how to access the new round-island walk.
It also covers quirks, curiosities and attractions, including Jimi Hendrix’s unusual love affair with the island, a day in the life of a ferry master, tree-climbing, World War II history, the annual walk at low tide to look for marine creatures underneath Ryde’s grand Victorian pier, award-winning wines and more dinosaur fossil-rich beaches than anywhere else in Britain!
Twenty maps will help you navigate from one point of interest to another, take walks and enjoy cycle rides.
Indeed, whatever your interest, the updated Bradt Isle of Wight Guidebook will help you to plan and enjoy a visit to remember.
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Contents
Going Slow on the Isle of Wight
1 Yarmouth & the Northwest
2 Cowes, Ryde & the Northeast
3 Tennyson Down & the Southwest
4 The South
5 Newport & around
Index
About the author
Mark Rowe is a wildlife and outdoors journalist with 20+ years’ experience who has explored the Isle of Wight more than 30 times – first as a teenager, then as a walker and birdwatcher, and now as a parent. He knows Wight inside out, taking delight in the quirky and unusual side of island life, which is very much part of the visitor’s experience. Using his eye for detail, he feels strongly that the Isle of Wight has a great deal to offer a wide range of visitors interested in food, wildlife, stunning coastal landscapes and much more besides. He considers that this book celebrating slow travel on the sheltered climes of an island off the south coast of England is a reward for good behaviour and the many winters endured researching Bradt’s guides to the Outer Hebrides and Orkney.