Godshill
Godshill is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, with a population of 1,459 at the 2011 Census.
Godshill is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, with a population of 1,459 at the 2011 Census. It lies between Newport and Ventnor in the southeast of the island.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Godshill
6 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.
- 01
- 02Appuldurcombe House
Grade I listed English country house on the Isle of Wight, England, UK
2.4 km · Wikipedia - 03
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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.
Getting to Godshill
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 109 km · Bristol (BRS), 132 km
- Stations
- Godshill railway station, 600 m · Merstone (Isle of Wight) railway station, 2.8 km · Whitwell Halt railway station, 3.5 km · Horringford railway station, 4 km · Wroxall railway station, 3.1 km
- London → Godshill125 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · £17–23
- Bristol → Godshill131 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Godshill150 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · £20–26
- 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 Godshill
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 Godshill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMost visitors will need to rely on ferry service to and from the island.
- Get inAccess is across the Solent, a narrow stretch of sea between the mainland and the island, by regular ferry, hovercraft or fast-cat.
- Get inMany of the ferries carry cars, but this can be expensive; the alternative is to leave the car behind and use buses and trains on the island, but this will limit access to more rural locations and beaches.
- Get inCar tickets are for a car plus four passengers and depending on the size of your party bringing a car may actually work out cheaper than the passenger ferry.
- Get inIf taking a car on a vehicle ferry, it's strongly advised to book in advance, and is essential during the summer holidays.
From Wikivoyage: Isle of Wight, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Godshill
- Wroxallvillage and civil parish in the central south of the Isle of Wight3 km
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- Roudhamlet on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK1.9 km
- Merstonevillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK3 km
- Sandfordhamlet on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK1.9 km