Totland
Totland is a village, civil parish and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight.
Totland is a village, civil parish and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight. Besides the village of Totland, the civil parish comprises the western tip of the Isle of Wight, and includes The Needles, Tennyson Down and the hamlet of Middleton.
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Worth seeing in and around Totland
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.
- 01Yarmouth Castle
Yarmouth Castle is an artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1547 to protect Yarmouth Harbour on the Isle of Wight from the threat of French attack. Just under 100 feet across, the square castle was initially equipped with 15 artillery guns and a garrison of 20 men.
3.5 km · English artillery fort · Wikipedia - 02Hurst Castle
Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal protection programme against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the western entrance to the Solent waterway.
2.6 km · Device Fort in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Hurst Point Lighthouse
Hurst Point Lighthouse is located at Hurst Point in the English county of Hampshire, and guides vessels through the western approaches to the Solent.
2.8 km · lighthouse on the Solent, in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Afton Down
Afton Down is a chalk down near the village of Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Afton Down faces Compton Bay directly to the west, while Freshwater is approximately one mile north.
2.8 km · hill on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 05All Saints' Church, Freshwater
All Saints' Church, Freshwater is a parish church in the Church of England located in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
1.9 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Fort Victoria
Fort Victoria is a former military fort on the Isle of Wight, England, built to guard the Solent. The earliest fort on the site was a coastal fort known as Sharpenode Bulwark built in 1545–1547 by Henry VIII, but these defences had fallen into disrepair by the 17th century.
2.7 km · fort in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Farringford House
Farringford House, in the village of Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, was the home of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from 1853 until his death in 1892. The main house dates from 1806 with gothic embellishments and extensions added from the 1830s.
1.5 km · country house on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Fort Albert
Fort Albert is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs south-west of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight, England. It was also known as Cliff End Fort, named after the Northern extremity of Colwell Bay.
1.7 km · tower fort on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Tennyson Down
Tennyson Down is a hill at the west end of the Isle of Wight just south of Totland. Tennyson Down is a grassy, whale-backed ridge of chalk which rises to 482 ft/147m above sea level.
2.1 km · hill on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 10The Town Hall
Yarmouth Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England. The structure, which is used as a community events venue, is a Grade II listed building.
3.5 km · town hall in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Totland
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 108 km · Bristol (BRS), 113 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 115 km
- Stations
- Yarmouth railway station, 3.6 km · Freshwater (Isle of Wight) railway station, 1.5 km
- London → Totland135 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £90–150
- Bristol → Totland113 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · £88–147
- Cardiff → Totland145 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · £94–155
- 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 Totland
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 Totland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom a mainland location, the best approach is to use the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour direct to Yarmouth.
- Get inThis ferry operates from Lymington (on the mainland) and has good rail and road connections (as described in the Lymington article).
- Get inTaking a car on the ferry can be quite expensive; for short visits it may be better to park in the car park at Lymington Pier and board the ferry as a foot passenger.
From Wikivoyage: Yarmouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Totland
- Yarmouthtown and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England3.7 km
- Freshwatervillage and parish on the Isle of Wight, England900 m
- Norton Greenvillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK1.6 km
- Eastonvillage on the Isle of Wight, UK1.8 km
- Nortonhamlet in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England2.2 km
- Aftonhamlet on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK2.3 km