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Fishbourne

Fishbourne is a village between Wootton and Ryde, on the Isle of Wight.

Fishbourne
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The place

Fishbourne is a village between Wootton and Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. It is positioned on the eastern bank of Wootton Creek, and includes the terminal for the Wightlink car ferry from Portsmouth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fishbourne

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.

  1. 01
    Isle 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 km · heritage railway on the Isle of Wight, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Quarr 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".

    700 m · monastery on the Isle of Wight in southern England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All 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.

    3.4 km · church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Cross Church, Binstead

    Holy Cross Church, Binstead is a parish church in the Church of England located in Binstead, Isle of Wight.

    2 km · church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. 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.

    1.4 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Mark's Church, Wootton

    St. Mark's Church, Wootton is a church in the Church of England located in Wootton, Isle of Wight.

    1.9 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ryde 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.

    3.8 km · pier in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Briddlesford 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.

    2.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Butterfly World, Isle of Wight

    Butterfly World is a butterfly zoo located on the Isle of Wight. It opened on 1 May 1983 as part of the Medina Garden Centre, becoming the first butterfly farm opened in a UK garden centre, and the fifth Butterfly farm in the world.

    3.6 km · butterfly house located on the Isle of Wight · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church 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.

    3.6 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Fishbourne

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 98 km · Bristol (BRS), 127 km
Stations
Ryde Esplanade railway station, 3.9 km · Ryde Pier Head railway station, 3.9 km · Havenstreet railway station, 3 km · Wootton railway station, 2.4 km
  • London → Fishbourne
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–15
  • Bristol → Fishbourne
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
  • Luton, Luton → Fishbourne
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fishbourne

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 Fishbourne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWootton Bridge is near the Wightlink ferry terminal at Fishbourne.
  • Get inFerries depart from Portsmouth to Fishbourne.

From Wikivoyage: Wootton Bridge, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    8 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    247 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    509 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    635 km

If you know how people move in Fishbourne – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Fishbourne

  • Rydetown and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK3.8 km
  • Wootton Bridgevillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, UK1.4 km
  • Whippinghamvillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK3.6 km
  • Binsteadvillage on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK2 km
  • Havenstreetvillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK2.6 km
  • Binfieldhamlet on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK3.8 km