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

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.
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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.
- 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 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".
700 m · monastery on the Isle of Wight in southern England · Wikipedia - 03All 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 - 04Holy 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 - 05St. 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 - 06St. 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 - 07Ryde 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 - 08Briddlesford 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 - 09Butterfly 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 - 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.
3.6 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
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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 → Fishbourne89 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–15
- Bristol → Fishbourne142 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
- Luton, Luton → Fishbourne119 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20
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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 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.
- Get inWootton Bridge is near the Wightlink ferry terminal at Fishbourne.
- Get inFerries depart from Portsmouth to Fishbourne.
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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