Yaverland
Yaverland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, England.
Yaverland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is just north of Sandown on Sandown Bay. It has about 200 houses. About 1⁄3 of a mile away from the village is the Yaverland Manor and Church. Holotype fossils have been discovered here of Yaverlandia and a pterosaur, Caulkicephalus. The White Air extreme sports festival was held annually at Yaverland pay and display car park between 1997 and 2008, but moved to Brighton for 2009.
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Worth seeing in and around Yaverland
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.
- 01St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland
St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland is a parish church in the Church of England located in Yaverland, Isle of Wight.
800 m · church in Yaverland, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Dinosaur Isle
Dinosaur Isle is a purpose-built dinosaur museum located in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The museum was designed by Isle of Wight architect Rainey Petrie Johns in the shape of a giant pterosaur.
700 m · dinosaur museum on the Isle of Wight · Wikipedia - 03Bembridge Down
Bembridge Down is a 56.3-hectare Site of special scientific interest which is north-east of Sandown, Isle of Wight, England. The site was notified in 1951 for both its biological and geological features.
1.7 km · hill on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St. Mary's Church, Brading
St Mary's Church is a parish church in the Church of England located in Brading, Isle of Wight.
2.2 km · church in Brading, UK · Wikipedia - 05Brading Down
Brading Down is a chalk down southwest of Brading, Isle of Wight. It is a prominent hill which overlooks Sandown Bay, with views across the bay towards Shanklin, Sandown and Culver Down.
2.5 km · hill on the Isle of Wight, in England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary
The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, previously known as the Isle of Wight Zoo and Sandown Zoo, is a wildlife sanctuary on the coastline of Sandown, Isle of Wight. At 8.5 acres, it is the largest collection of exotic animals on the Island.
400 m · zoo on the Isle of Wight, UK · Wikipedia - 07Nunwell House
Nunwell House, also Nunwell Manor, is a historic English country house in Brading, Isle of Wight. Located 3 miles south of Ryde, the Tudor and Jacobean style house also has later additions.
2.8 km · country house in Brading, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Sandown Castle
Sandown Castle was a Device Fort built at Sandown on the Isle of Wight by Henry VIII in 1545 to protect against the threat of French attack. Constructed from stone with angular bastions, its design was a hybrid of Italian military architectural thinking with traditional English military design.
1.1 km · Device Fort built at Sandown on the Isle of Wight · Wikipedia - 09Sandown Fort
Sandown Fort is a fort built in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in the middle of Sandown Bay. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it in response to a perceived French invasion.
400 m · Palmerston Fort on the Isle of Wight · Wikipedia - 10New 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.
2 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yaverland
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 101 km · Bristol (BRS), 137 km
- Stations
- Isle of Wight/Sandown Airport, 3.5 km · Sandown railway station, 2 km · Bembridge Airport, 2.5 km · Brading railway station, 1.7 km · Lake railway station, 2.9 km
- London → Yaverland117 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · £18–23
- Bristol → Yaverland135 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Yaverland144 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £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 Yaverland
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 Yaverland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Yaverland
- Sandownseaside resort town and civil parish on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England1.6 km
- Bradingtown in Isle of Wight, England, UK1.8 km
- Lakevillage and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, UK2.7 km
- Adgestonevillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK2.1 km
- Alverstonevillage on the Isle of Wight, in England, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Borthwoodhamlet on the Isle of Wight, in England, United Kingdom4 km