Museums, archives and heritage in Isle of Wight
Wight, Isle of, in the English Channel, and in the county of Hants [until 1890], from which it is separated by Spithead and the Solent; greatest length, E. and W., from Bembridge Point to the Needles, 23 miles; greatest breadth, N. and S., from Cowes to St Catherine’s Point, 13 miles; area, 93,341 acres, population … Read more