This is a list of towns and villages in the county of Isle of Wight, England.
Towns
There are nine main towns, most located along the north and east coasts. By greater area population, Ryde is the largest with a population of 32,072. Newport is the centrally located county town, with an area population of 25,496. Most settlements link to Newport by road, which is a hub for island services. There are no settlements with city status; the nearest city is Portsmouth, five miles north-east, then Southampton, ten miles north of Cowes.
Villages
Places that describe themselves as villages are as follows: Adgestone Afton Alverstone Appley Apse Heath Arreton Bembridge Billingham Binfield Binstead Blackgang Blackwater Bonchurch Bouldnor Bowcombe Brighstone Brook Calbourne Carisbrooke Chale Chale Green Chillerton Cranmore Culver Down Elmfield Fishbourne Freshwater Gatcombe Godshill Great Thorness Gunville Gurnard Hale Common Hamstead Havenstreet Haylands Horringford Kingston Lake Luccombe Marks Corner Merstone Mottistone Nettlestone Newbridge Newchurch Newtown Ningwood Ninham Niton Northwood Norton Green Oakfield Porchfield Puckaster Puckpool Quarr Hill Queen's Bower Rew Street Rookley and Rookley Green Rowridge Seaview Shalcombe Shalfleet Shide Shorwell Spring Vale St Helens St Lawrence Swanmore Thorley Totland Wellow Whippingham Whitely Bank Whitwell Winford Wootton and Wootton Bridge Wroxall Yaverland
Hamlets and other places
Adgestone
Afton
Afton Park
Alum Bay
Alverstone Garden Village
Appley
Apse Heath
Ashey
Barton
Bathingbourne
Bierley
Binfield
Bouldnor
Borthwood
Bowcombe
Branstone
Chale Green
Cross Lane
Culver Down
Downend
Easton
Egypt Point
Elmfield
Five Houses
Foreland Fields
Forest Side
Freshwater Bay
Great Thorness
Gunville
Hale Common
Hamstead
Havenstreet
Haylands
Hillway
Horringford
Hulverstone
Hunny Hill
King's Quay
Kingston
Knighton
Lane End
Limerstone
Little Atherfield
Little Thorness
Littletown
Locksgreen
Lowtherville
Mersley
Moortown
Morton
Mottistone
Nettlecombe
Ninham
Niton Undercliff
Norton
Norton Green
Nunwell
Oakfield
Osborne
Parkhurst
Pondwell
Princelett
Puckaster
Quarr Hill
Queen's Bower
Rew Street
Rookley Green
Roud
Rowridge
Sandford
Seagrove Bay
Shalcombe
Shide
Staplers
Steephill
Thorley
Thorley Street
Thorncross
Totland Bay
Upper Ventnor
Wellow
Whiteley Bank
Winford
Wootton Common
Yafford
Yarbridge
See also
List of United Kingdom locations
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Isle of Wight
List of places in England
References
External links
Map of places on the Isle of Wight compiled from this list
Isle of Wight Towns & Villages, Isle of Wight Time, Greenwich Mean Time website
Place Name Index, Wightcam- Photographically Illustrated Walks on the Isle of Wight The Villages and Towns of the Isle of Wight, Southern Life (UK) website; History of the Villages of Hampshire, Dorset and Isle of Wight Counties.