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- Yarmouth is the smallest town in the United Kingdom
- 500,000 people attended the Isle of Wight Pop Festival in 1970 held on Afton Down, Freshwater
- The Jimmy Hendrix statue is found at Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater Bay
- The West Wight is famous for having home owners such as Tennyson, JB Priestley and Juliet Margaret Cameron
- The West Wight although covering a third of the Island has just a population of 20,000
- In 1662 Yarmouth was made into its own island with a drawbridge added in 1664
- Josiah Wedgewood used sand from Alum Bay
- Fort Victoria was used for the first torpedo experiments
- The Rt. Honourable Sir Edward Heath KG, MBE, MP passed the Needles to win the Round the Island Race four times
- The beaches of Brook and Chale are great for fossil hunting
- St Catherine's Down is the highest point in the West Wight at 236 metres
- Smuggling was a major occupation in Brighstone during the 18th and 19th century
- The pub in Brighstone is called the 'Three Bishops' as three local churchmen went on to become bishops
- There are over 4000 recorded ship wrecks off the Isle of Wight many along the south west coastline
- Newtown was a rotten borough until the reform act of 1832
- In 1934 the Yar Bridge was bought by the council and freed from tolls
- Parkhurst was the site of the first workhouse in England with the 'House of Industry' built in 1770 later to become a high security prison
- Newtown was first called Francheville (freetown)
- Northcourt Manor, Shorwell is the largest manor house on the Island
- The 'Old Gaffers Festival' is largest event in West Wight held in Yarmouth every June
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