Isle of Wight - the Isle of Wight is one of the UK's most popular visitor destinations and isleofwight.co.uk aims to share the Island's beauty and charm as well as ideas for places to stay and things to do and where best to eat and drink.

England's largest island, the Isle of Wight, sits just a short sea crossing over the Solent from the southern mainland coast of the United Kingdom. It has been enjoyed as a holidays and short break destination since the 18th Century and became one of Europe's most fashionable resort areas after Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert chose the Isle of Wight as their family's home in the 1800s at Osborne House.

The Island, as it is known, is just approximately 23 miles long from the most easterly point near Bembridge to the famous landmark of the Needles stacks and lighthouse which sits on its western tip. The internationally renowned sailing town of Cowes sits at the northern point of the diamond-shaped island and the most