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Nettlestone

Nettlestone is a village on the Isle of Wight, England, about 4 miles (6 km) south east from Ryde.

Nettlestone
Nettlestone · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nettlestone is a village on the Isle of Wight, England, about 4 miles (6 km) south east from Ryde. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having been in existence in 1066. Together with Seaview, it forms the civil parish of Nettlestone and Seaview.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nettlestone

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
    St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde

    St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde is an abbey of Benedictine nuns in the Isle of Wight, England.

    2.8 km · Benedictine abbey on Isle of Wight, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge

    Holy Trinity Church is a parish church in the Church of England located in Bembridge, Isle of Wight.

    3 km · grade II listed church in Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England, UK · 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.

    3.9 km · church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    No Man's Land Fort

    No Man's Land Fort, also referred to as No Man's Fort, is a sea fort in the Solent, near Portsmouth, England. It is one of the Palmerston Forts built between 1867 and 1880 after the recommendations of the 1859 Royal Commission.

    3.6 km · Grade II listed sea fort in the Solent, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Mary's Church, Brading

    St Mary's Church is a parish church in the Church of England located in Brading, Isle of Wight.

    3.7 km · church in Brading, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brading Marshes to St. Helen's Ledges SSSI

    Brading Marshes to St. Helen's Ledges is a 488.5-hectare Site of special scientific interest which stretches from Brading along the Yar valley between Bembridge and St Helens, Isle of Wight through to the sea at Priory Bay on the north east coast of the Isle of Wight.

    2.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Helen's Church, St. Helens

    Church in Nettlestone and Seaview, Isle of Wight, England, UK

    600 m · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    New Town Hall, Brading

    The New Town Hall is a municipal building in The Bull Ring in Brading, a town on the Isle of Wight, in England. It accommodates the offices and meeting place of Brading Town Council.

    3.9 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holy Trinity Church, Ryde

    Holy Trinity Church is a former Church of England parish church located in the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Consecrated while still unfinished in 1845, and parished in 1863, it became the rapidly growing town's first parish church.

    3.4 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Royal Victoria Arcade

    The Royal Victoria Arcade is a shopping arcade in Ryde, Isle of Wight. Built between 1835 and 1836 and restored in 2001, the arcade currently has 14 shops and an underground museum.

    3.9 km · shopping arcade in Ryde, 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 Nettlestone

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km · Bristol (BRS), 134 km
Stations
Bembridge Airport, 3.7 km · Ryde Esplanade railway station, 3.9 km · Smallbrook Junction railway station, 2.7 km · Ryde St John's Road railway station, 3.1 km · Bembridge railway station, 2.8 km
  • London → Nettlestone
    112 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £18–24
  • Bristol → Nettlestone
    132 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Nettlestone
    139 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nettlestone

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Ryde, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    13 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    505 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    604 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    640 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nettlestone

  • Rydetown and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK3.6 km
  • Bradingtown in Isle of Wight, England, UK3.9 km
  • Bembridgevillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK3.1 km
  • St Helensvillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England1.5 km
  • Nettlestone and Seaviewcivil parish on the Isle of Wight, UK500 m
  • Seaviewvillage on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom1 km