Binstead
Binstead is a village in the civil parish of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, England.
Binstead is a village in the civil parish of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located in the northeast part of the Island, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) west of Ryde on the main road A3054 between Ryde and Newport. In the 2011 Census Binstead had been incorporated within Ryde whilst still retaining its electoral ward, Binstead and Fishbourne.
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Worth seeing in and around Binstead
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Isle of Wight Steam Railway
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a heritage railway on the Isle of Wight. The railway passes through 5+1⁄2 miles of countryside from Smallbrook Junction to Wootton station, passing through the small village of Havenstreet, where the line has a station, headquarters and a depot.
3.1 km · heritage railway on the Isle of Wight, England · Wikipedia - 02Quarr Abbey
Quarr Abbey is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor".
1.3 km · monastery on the Isle of Wight in southern England · Wikipedia - 03St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde
St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde is an abbey of Benedictine nuns in the Isle of Wight, England.
3 km · Benedictine abbey on Isle of Wight, England · Wikipedia - 04All Saints' Church, Ryde
All Saints' Church, Ryde is a parish church in the Church of England located in Ryde, Isle of Wight. The building is a landmark of the island, the spire being visible from many places around the Isle of Wight and from the mainland, projecting beyond the skyline.
1.5 km · church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Holy Cross Church, Binstead
Holy Cross Church, Binstead is a parish church in the Church of England located in Binstead, Isle of Wight.
600 m · church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St. Edmund's Church, Wootton
St. Edmund's Church, Wootton is a Grade II* Listed parish church in the Church of England located in Wootton, Isle of Wight.
3.3 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St. Mark's Church, Wootton
St. Mark's Church, Wootton is a church in the Church of England located in Wootton, Isle of Wight.
3.6 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Ryde Pier
Ryde Pier is an early 19th century pier serving the town of Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It is the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier.
2.2 km · pier in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Briddlesford Copses
Briddleford Copses is a 167.2-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Area of Conservation which is south of Wootton Bridge on the Isle of Wight in Britain. The site was designated an SAC in 1995 in recognition of the internationally important breeding population of Bechstein's bat that are resident there.
3.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 10Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Swanmore, Ryde
The Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Swanmore, near Haylands in Ryde is a former parish church in the Church of England located in Ryde, Isle of Wight.
1.7 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Binstead
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 84 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km · Bristol (BRS), 129 km
- Stations
- Ryde Esplanade railway station, 2.1 km · Ryde Pier Head railway station, 2.4 km · Smallbrook Junction railway station, 3 km · Ryde St John's Road railway station, 2.2 km · Ashey railway station, 3.5 km
- London → Binstead114 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · £17–23
- Bristol → Binstead128 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Binstead139 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £19–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Binstead
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Binstead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy ferry or hovercraft: The Fast Cat operated by Wightlink runs just about every half hour in the summer.
- Go nextThe ferry takes you back to Portsmouth on the mainland, or you can sail from Cowes to Southampton.
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Next door to Binstead
- Rydetown and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK1.9 km
- Fishbournevillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Wootton Bridgevillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, UK3.1 km
- Havenstreetvillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK2.5 km
- Asheyhamlet on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK3.1 km
- Oakfieldsuburb of Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, in England, UK2.4 km