Founded : 8,000 years ago
Curency : £
Time zone: UTC+0 (GMT) • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (BST)
Population: 141,606
The Isle of wight broke away from mainland Britain about 125,000 years ago.
The Isle of Wight is an island county of
great Britain situated in the English Channel of the Coast of Hampshire. The island is the second most populous island in England and has been a popular seaside resort since the Victorian era.
Food
Gallybagger cheese soufflé
Crab pasty
Isle of Wight tomatoes
Black garlic
Honeycomb doughnuts
Asparagus
Beef & ale pie
Rock samphire
Places to eat
For seafood.
The hut Colwell Bay
The smoking lobster Ventnor or cowes
For Sunday roast
The crown & bear at Brading
Dining for a treat
The Brasserie at Foresters Hall in Cowes
Pub Grub
The Fighting Cocks near Arreton
Places to stay
Hotels
Royal Hotel Ventnor
Luccombe manor Shanklin
Albert cottage Hotel East Cowes
Foresters Hall west Cowes
B&B
The havelock Shanklin
The Clifton Shanklin
The Wight Sandown
Camping
Eco friendly
Yurt
Caravan
Unique places to stay
Houseboat Bambridge
Waterlodges at Yarmouth
CARISBROOKE Windmill Camper site
Tiny homes northwood
Self-catering
Fireman's cottage Yarmouth
No1 soverins gate east Cowes
Things to do
Visit Osborne House
See the needles
Ventnor botanical Gardens
The Isle of Wight donkey sanctuary
West Wight alpacas
Isle of Wight steam railway
Dialect
A is usually pronounced broad and long, as ai; thus aaid, aid; aaige, age; aaigent, agent, etc.; and often for ' of ' ; as, 'a lig a mutton.'
Aails, beards of barley, called barley aails.
Aal amang, one among another. When different flocks of sheep or herds of cattle are mixed together, they are said to be ' aal amang one another.'
Aal manners, every sort. ' I zid aal manners of folks; ' I saw persons of every description.
Aal to rags, all in pieces. ' Es cooat was tore aal to rags; ' his coat was torn all in pieces.
Accoordan, or Coordan, agreeably with.
Acoolde, very cold.
Addle, worthless, or corrupt : especially applied to a decayed egg.
Adone, command to cease.
Adwine, to clear away, or cut down regularly. * Goo into the ground and cut the wheeat adwine right drow.
Afeeard, afraid.
Aftermath, the second crop of grass.
Agone, since: ' ten years agone.
Agwine, going. ' Beest thee agwine ? ' Are you going ?
Aleer, or Leer, unladen; empty. 'Goo whooam wi' the wagon aleer; ' go home with the waggon empty.
Allsides, every one. ' Goo down to plough, allsides.'
Amoost, almost.
Anan, or Nan, what ? what do you say ?
Aneerst, near. ' Don't goo aneerst 'em.'
Aneust, nearly alike.
Anigh, near to ; nigh.
Anjur-dogs, kitchen utensils for the spit to run on.
Any when, at any time.
Apern, or rather Yapern, an apron.
Apeyas, quickly; apace.
Apple-stucklun, a small sort of apple pie baked without a dish.
Arenest, to bind a bargain. * I ghid un a crown in arenest.'
Ash, a field after the corn has been carted; as, * a barley ash ; ' ' a wheat ash.'
Assmirt, a kind of wild spinach.
Astour, or Astore, speedily. Aternoon, afternoon.
Athirt, across; athwart.
Auverdro, to upset. 'He auverdrode a looad o wuts;' he upset a load of oats. Auver-right, opposite.
Aveard, afraid.
Avoord, to afford.
Awbel, the arbeel tree.
Ax, or Acks, to inquire.
Axen, publishing the banns of marriage.
Azew, not giving milk. 'The wold cow's azew; 'the old cow has done giving milk.
Baak, a part of the land not properly ploughed, the plough having passed without turning it over, a balk.
Baam, balm.
Bachelor's button, a flower. Backside, the farmyard.
Badger, to worry ; to tease.
Bailey, a bailiff.
Ballirag, to bully ; to abuse.
Bangnn, great. ' He's a bangun gurt buoy; ' he is a very large boy.
Banney, Barnabas.
Bar, iron : for pitching hurdles.
Bargun, bargain; a farm of small holding.
Barm, yeast.
Baste, to beat with a stick.
Batter, the action of a fowl in dusting itself.
Batts, short ridges; odd corners of fields.
Bavines, faggots made of large branches.
Bed, to ask; to desire.
Bedaab, to befoul.
Bedwine, or Bethwine, wild clematis.
Bee, by. ' Cotch hold bee’n; ' take hold by him.
Beeast, cattle.
Beesn't, be not; are you not Beest, or Bist, are you you are.
Ben, been.
Ben, a bin for corn.
Berrey, a rabbit's burrow.
Besom, a broom.
Bevoul. See Bedaab.
Beyast, to put dripping on roast meat; also,
to beat. 'I'll beyast thee well vor that.'
Biddy, or Chickabiddy, a chick.
Bide, to dwell ; abide. ' He bides at Newport.' Bill-hook, a crooked implement for cutting wood.
Billus, to breathe hard ; also, bellows.
Billy, a bull.
Bittul, a wooden club to drive stakes.
Bizzum, a broom.
Black bob, a common term for the black beetle class of insects.
Blackthorn Winter, the very cold weather usual about the end of April.
Blare, to bellow.
Blastnashun, an execration. ' Blastnashun seyze thee.'
Bleyads, the shafts of a waggon or cart.
Bleyam, to find fault. “Odd Ueyam thee.'
Bleyar, to roar; to bellow. 'A Ueyaring cow forgets her calf the soonest: 'a common saying.
Bob, an insect or worm.
Bodyhoss, the horse in a team nearest the hindmost, or the shafts.
Borne, to swing, or carry loosely.
Bonnes wish, to ride or drive rapidly. ' There they goos bonneswish.' Bonny-goo, spirited. ' That's a bonny-goo gelding.'
Bugle, a young bull; the Bugle Inn at Newport.
Bull-head, a fish, called also the miller's thumb; and chub-head.
Bundle off, to send one away in a hurry.
Bundle out, to turn out quickly.
Bunny, a small pool of water.
Butt, a small enclosure of land, as the church butt at Shanklin.
Buttercups, the meadow ranunculus.
Butter -vingers, one who lets things fall: generally applied to cricketers when missing a catch : “ Well done, butter-vingers.'
Caa, or Kaa, to cry like a rook or jackdaw.
Caal, to call. Caaf, a calf.
Caay, coy; bashful.
Cagmag, mongrel bred; coarse; ugly. 'He's a gurt zote, cagmag zort of a fellur,' i. e. he's a great, ugly, foolish kind of a fellow.
Callards, leaves and shoots of cabbages.
Calleer, to caper or jump. 'He cut a calleer auver the deetch,'he capered over the ditch.
Cammock, the plant restharrow. Butter or cheese flavoured by it is called 'cammocky.''
Cankerd, cross ; ill-natured.
Canst, can you ?
Cap, a shepherd's dog.
Cappendur, or Capendur, a carpenter.
Car, to carry.
Carky, annoyed; vexed. 'He zims plaguy carky about it,'i. e. he seems much annoyed at it. Cat's Creyadul, or Scratch Cradle, a game played by children. Cats'-tails, a plant growing in wet lands : Hippuris vulgaris.
Cess, or Sess, to spill water about ; also, to call dogs to eat.
Chaa, or Chaw, to be sulky, or feel annoyed. 'He chaos that consarn now; 'he is still annoyed at that affair.
Chackle, to cackle like a hen.
Cham, to chew.
Charm, many persons talking together. ' They be aal in a charm.''
Cheery, chary ; heedful.
Cheeses, seeds of the mallow.
Cheeup, to cry like a young bird.
Chequers, the game of draughts.
Chibbels, the shoots of onions.
Chickabiddies, chicken so called b children. Chid-lamb, a female lamb.
Chilbladder, a chilblain.
Chimbley, a chimney.
Chine, a cleft in the cliff, as at Shanklin, Lowcombe, and Black Gang.
Chissel Bob, the woodlouse. Formerly called also cheeselypp worme, or Robin
Goodfellow's louse. See Halliwells Archaic
Chitterluns, the entrails of a pig.
Chocks, small pieces of wood.
Chook, or Sook, a word used to call pigs to their food.
Chop, to exchange.
Chops, the jaws.
Chuckle-headed, thick-headed.
Chur, work done by the day.
Church Litten, a churchyard
Claa, to grapple with, or take hold of. ' Glaa hold bee'n ; ' lay hold on him.
Clams, pincers of a broad shape.
Clapper-claa, to scratch. A man having his face scratched by his wife is said to be ' clapper-claad.'
Claps, to clasp ; also, a kind of hook.
Clayders, or Gliders, a weed given to goslings as food; the aparine, or goosegrass.
Cleean, quite ; entirely. ' He's gone clemn out of the country.'
Clem, Clement, the tutelar saint of the blacksmiths. * The blacksmiths be gwine to keep Clem; ' the blacksmiths intend keeping St. Clement.
Clented, clenche : applied to horse-shoes.
Clink, a smart blow.
Clivers, goosegrass.
Close, a public walk.
Clot, a clod.
Clote, the burdock.
Clot-headed, sleepy; dull.
Clot-mauler, a wooden implement with an iron head, for breaking clods. Clout, a blow. ' I'll ghee thee a clout in the head.'
Clumpy, a dunce ; a stupid fellow.
Clunge, to crowd ; to squeeze closely together.
Clutch, to cluck.
Clutch hin, a hen during the time of setting on her eggs.
Clutters, part of the tackling of a plough.
Coalshute, a coal-scuttle.
Coath, a disease of the liver of sheep from feeding in wet lands. 'That sheep's coatlied' or ' coathy.'
Cob, to beat on the posteriors with anything flat.
Cob-nut, a bastard kind of filbert, or large
roundish nut.
Cock-a-hoop, exulting. It literally means a cock crowing upon a hillock.
Cock-a-pert, a saucy fellow.
Cock-hoss, or Cock-a-hoss, riding two on a horse. A man and wife dressed in their Sunday clothes, and riding to market or elsewhere, are said to be riding a cock-hoss.
Cocksheddle, to tumble over head foremost.
Collar the Mag, to throw a quoit with such precision as to surround the plug; technically, to ' ring the jack.'
Combe, a hollow in the downs: frequent in
the names of places, as Lowconibe,
Bowcombe, etc.
Contravess, quite the reverse.
Cooas, to course.
Cooastun, coasting; flying. A hawk or kite flying round a farmyard is said to be “cooastun about.'
Coodsn't, could not ; or, could not you ?
Cowed milk, milk warm from the cow.
Cow-lays, a lea or meadow where cows are kept. Craa, the craw, or stomach.
Crabbun, a dung-hill fowl ; a coward.
Crapzick, sick from over eating or drinking.
Craw, the crop of a bird.
Crewel, worsted. ' He wears cruel garters.' King Lear.
Crib, a child's bed.
Cricket, a small stool with three legs.
Crimassy, ' I cry your mercy.'
Cri-me-gemminy, an exclamation of surprise. cry me gemininy! '
Crock, an earthen pot.
Crousty, ill-tempered; snappish. Crowner, a coroner. ' The crowner hath set on her.' Hamlet.
Crumpbacked, crooked in the back. Crumpled, crooked. 'A cow with a crumpled horn.'
Curridge, to encourage. ' Why dosn't curridge'n on to fight 1 '
Cuss, to curse.
Cusshun-thumper, a Methodist preacher.
Cussnation, an oath.
Cute, sharp ; clever.
Cutter wren, the wren. Cutty, in the north, means small.
Cuttun knife, a large, sharp, triangular implement to cut hay from ricks.
Daa, a jackdaw. Daant, to daunt.
Daaybed. One who lies in bed beyond the usual time of rising is called 'a leyazy daaybed chap.'
Daay-work, work done by the day.
Dab, a smart blow.
Daddy long legs, a long, slender- legged, winged insect. Darn, a kind of oath. ' Darn thy body.'
Dash, a word of surprise. * Odd dash it! '
Ded, did. Ded'st, did you 1 Dedsn't, did you not?
Dedly, very; as, ' dedly much; ' ' dedly fine ; ' < dedly lively.' Deffer, to disagree; to differ. ' We defferd about that consarn.'
Dem, dim; purblind.
Derekelly minnut, this instant.
Despurd, very; exceeding. That's a despurd good pwineter,'i. e. that dog is an exceeding good pointer.
Devvul's dancing hour, midnight.
Devvul's snuff-box, a kind of mushroom, also called puff-ball. Dewberry, the largest kind of blackberry, which grows in shaded places, trailing upon the ground.
Dewbit, a meal before breakfast.
Deyan, a mild oath. ' Odd deyan thee.'
Deyazy, a daisy.
Dibble, to make holes for planting.
Dill, a word to call ducks.
Ding, to make one hear and understand. ' I'll ding it into es ears.'
Discoous, to hold converse.
Dishwasher, the water wagtail.
Dismollish, to destroy; to break. 'Your glasses I'll dismollish on the vlore.'
Old Song.
Dock, a kind of mallows.
Dogged, very persistently. ' He's dogged sulky.'
Dogsmeeat, carrion.
Dollurs, lowness of spirits. Often used by Shakespeare. Domp, or Dompy, short ; stunted.
Done-over, drunk.
Doo, two.
Dooman, a woman : only used when preceded by old ol'dooman, old 'oman.
Egg, to urge on ; to incite.
Ellebn, or Lebn, eleven.
Ellum, an elm.
Enmmt, an ant.
Empt, to make empty.
Es, or Ez, is.
Ethers, the top or finishing boughs of a willow or hazel hedge. Ewet, the eft.
Fader, father.
Fag'd out, quite weary.
Fairy Rings, circles of coarse grass.
Fairy Stones, fossil echini.
False, wanting spirit: in this sense usually applied to a horse that gives in at a dead pull. ' That's a deuced false hoss.'
Faulty, unsound ; rotten ; guilty.
Feeurd, afraid.
Fend off, to keep one off.
Feyay, a fairy.
Finney, a frolic; to have to do with. 'I'll hey a hit of afinney at that;'I'll have something to do with that.
Fist, completion. ' I can make no fist on't.'
Fittun, right proper. ‘My mind et don't zim fittun; 'It's my opinion it's not right.
Fleyam, or Flem, an instrument to bleed horses.
Flick, or Vlick, the lard of the inside of a pig; also, a flitch; also, to engage in an
undertaking. 'I'll hey a flick at that consarn; 'I'll have a hand in that affair.
Flicking Comb, a large-toothed comb. Flop, or Vlop, to fall bodily down.
Flount, to strut about gaudily dressed.
Flump, the same as Flop.
Flustration, to be in a fright.
Folks, the men servants.
Fooas, force.
Footering, idling. ' He's footering about.'
Fraail, a light kind of basket. 'Fygges, raysyns in. fray el.' Rich. Goer de Lion, 1549. Fresh, sober ; to take refreshment, as used by Chaucer.
Frowze, to rumple.
Funch, to push. ' What do'st funcli me vor ' Why do you push me?
Furd up, entangled.
Furl, to throw.
Fuz, furze.
Fuz-chipper, a bird called the furze-chirper.
Fuz-owl, a rank-smelling insect ; a bug of the cimicidce family.
Gaaigement, a fight ; an engagement.
Gaay, gay; fast. A person horseback striking suddenly into a gallop is said ' to goo off gaay.'
Galore, plenty.
Gambrul, a wooden implement generally used to open the hinder legs of pigs for taking out the entrails.
Gammer, an old woman.
Gandermonth., the time of the wife's confinement after the accouchement. Gap, to notch ; to jag.
Garlic-eater, a stinking fellow.
Gaully, thin and bad: applied to defective spots in crops of turnips or corn.
Gauls, spots of land in a field where the crop of corn or grass has failed.' That's a gaully piece o' wheeat.'
Gee, to agree. ' They don't zim to gee noohow together.'
Geeam-lig, a lame leg.
Geeamsorm, frolicsome ; gamesome.
Gemminy, an exclamation of surprise.
Genge, or Geyenge, depth of soil. See Ghenge.
Gheeat, a gate.
Ghenge, or Plowghenge, the depth of the furrow. 'The rain esn't gone into the ground not plowghenge deep.' Ghid, gave. Ghid 'n, gave him. Ghid 'ur, gave her. Gerden, a garden.
Ghit, get ; go. ' Ghit along wi' ye.' ' Ghit out.'
Gib, a horse that will not draw.
Gillafers, gillyflowers.
Ginger, or Gingerly, with great nicety. ' Zet the trap as ginger as you can.' Glareworm, a glow-worm.
Gloar, to squint ; to stare.
Glum, gloomy ; sullen.
Glutch, to swallow with difficulty.
Godzend, a shipwreck.
Goo, to go.
Sport
Sports include golf, marathon, cycling and sailing.
Music
The Isle of Wight Music Festival is held each summer.
It is the home of the bands The Bees, Trixie's Big Red Motorbike, Level 42, and Wet Leg.
Games
John Worsley's Commodore 64 game Spirit of the Stones was set on the Isle of Wight
Music life
The Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four" (1967), credited to Lennon-McCartney and sung by Paul McCartney, refers to renting a cottage on the island.
Films
Mrs Brown (1997), with Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly, was filmed at Osborne House and Chale.
Victoria and Abdul (2017) starring Dame Judi Dench and Ali Fazal, began shooting principal photography at Osborne House in September 2016.
Novels
Julian Barnes' novel England, England broaches the idea of replicating England in a theme park on the Isle of Wight.
Famous people
17th century and earlier
King Arwald, last pagan king in England
King Charles I of England, who was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle
Earl Tostig Godwinson, who supported Norwegian king Harald Hardrada's invasion
Actor, highwayman and conspirator Cardell "Scum" Goodman
Soldier and regicide of Charles I Thomas Harrison, imprisoned at Carisbrooke with John Rogers and Christopher Feake
Soldier Peter de Heyno
Philosopher and polymath Robert Hooke
Murderer Michal Morey
18th century
Marine painter Thomas Buttersworth
Explorer Anthony Henday
Radical journalist John Wilkes
19th century
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (monarch and consort), who built and lived at Osborne House.
Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, who lived at Dimbola Lodge
Irish Republican Thomas Clarke
Naval captain Jeremiah Coghlan, who retired to Ryde
Writer Charles Dickens
Novelist Gertrude Fenton
Poet John Keats
Inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi
Philosopher Karl Marx, who stayed at 1, St. Boniface Gardens, Ventnor
Religious writer and hymnwriter Mary Fawler Maude
Poet and hymnwriter Albert Midlane
Geologist and engineer John Milne
Regency architect John Nash
Novelist Harriet Parr
Early Hong Kong Government administrator William Pedder
New Zealand PM Henry Sewell
Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet Alfred Tennyson
20th century
Scriptwriter Raymond Allen
Concert organist E. Power Biggs
Darts player Keegan Brown
Singer Helen Clare.
Singer-songwriter Sarah Close
Inventor of the hovercraft Sir Christopher Cockerell
Presenter and actor Ray Cokes
Actress Bella Emberg
Yachtsman Uffa Fox
Actor Marius Goring
Musician Jack Green
Survival expert and Chief Scout Bear Grylls
Actress Sheila Hancock
Actor Melvyn Hayes
Singer-songwriter Lauran Hibberd
Folk-rock musician Robyn Hitchcock
Actor Geoffrey Hughes
Conspiracy theorist David Icke
Actor Jeremy Irons
Comedian Phill Jupitus
Actor Laura Michelle Kelly
Composer Albert Ketèlbey
Iranian poet Mimi Khalvati
Musician Mark King
Band Level 42
Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur
BBC Tonight presenter Cliff Michelmore
Film director Anthony Minghella
Actor David Niven
YouTuber Adam Pacitti
Cyclist Kieran Page
Professor of biochemistry Samuel Victor Perry
Musician Frederick Riddle
Performance artist Nigel Rolfe
Heptathlete Kelly Sotherton
Gardener and presenter Alan Titchmarsh
Novelist Edward Upward
Band Wet Leg
Band Grade 2
Transport
There are 2 airports on the island Wight Airport and Bembridge Airport.
Train
There are regular train services from London Waterloo to the port in under 2 hours. There are good rail links to all the other ports in the county.
Ferry
There are crossings from Lymington to Yarmouth, Portsmouth to Fishbourne and Southampton to East Cowes. Dedicated foot passenger services run from Portsmouth to Ryde Pier Head, Southsea to Ryde and Southampton to Cowes.
Bus/coach
There are bus stations close to the ports at Southampton and Portsmouth where there are regular crossings.
‘All in One’ tickets are available, which include coach travel to the port, ferry travel also connecting bus service once you arrive on the Island.
Traveling around on the island
Cycling
The Sunshine Trail, which is a circular route linking Sandown, Shanklin, Godshill, and Wroxall of 12 miles (19 km).
The Red Squirrel Trail, a track between Cowes and Sandown that is 32 miles (51 km) in total.
The Round the Island Cycle Route of 62 miles (100 km).
On foot
There are over 500 miles of public rights of way to explore on the Island.
Car
If you have arrived on the ferry the Road network is very well signposted
There are a number of taxis to choose from whether you fancy a trip around the Island or want to be dropped off at a specific place.
Rail
The Island Line train service operates from Ryde Pierhead round the east coast of the Island, down through to Shanklin.
Bus
Regular buses run between the main towns and resorts until very late, with services to more rural areas operating throughout the day.
Useful websites
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