Brighstone Forest is located in the southwest of the Isle of Wight. It is the largest forest on the Isle of Wight, being just a few hectares larger than Parkhurst Forest. It is spread over a number of hilly ridges which form the backbone of the Isle of Wight. From west to east the ridges are Chessell Down, Westover Down, Brighstone Down, Newbarn Down, Rowborough Down and Idlecombe Down. The main entrance is located at grid reference SZ 419849. The forest lies close to the small town of Brighstone, and is part of the Isle of Wight AONB.
Shalcombe Down is an outlying block of woodland to the west of Brighstone Forest.
The entrance to this block is located at grid reference SZ 395852.
Both woods are managed by the Forestry Commission under leasehold agreements - the total area is 482 hectares.
666°N 1.390°W / 50.666; -1.390 BrighstoneForest is located in the southwest of the Isle of Wight. It is the largest forest on the Isle of Wight, being just...
Needles on the Isle of Wight. The route goes through Bowcombe Down, BrighstoneForest, Mottistone Down, Brook Down, Afton Down, Freshwater Bay, Tennyson...
It is 395 hectares in area and the second largest forest on the Isle of Wight after BrighstoneForest. It is open to the public. It is much used as recreational...
Brighstone Down is a chalk down on the Isle of Wight. It is located close to the village of Brighstone, in the southwest of the island (the Back of the...
government department responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands. As of 2007, there are 8 areas of woodland on the Isle of...
and large stretches owned by the National Trust. BrighstoneForest, which covers the top of Brighstone Down, is the largest on the island. At St. Catherine's...
Brighstoneus (after Brighstone, a village on the Isle of Wight) is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the...
community of Isle of Wight druids held a ceremony at the Longstone near Brighstone. This was done as a podcast. The Quay Arts Centre in Newport exhibited...
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in 1888 Chondrosteosaurus Cretaceous (early) Brighstone or Brook, Isle of Wight no later than 1876 Craterosaurus Cretaceous (early)...
but continues to support the administration. A by-election was held in Brighstone, Calbourne and Shalfleet on 24 November 2022, triggered by the resignation...
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currently owned by the privately run unaccredited Dinosaur Farm Museum near Brighstone, the ownership situation was described as "complex" and the specimen is...
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2011 the parish had a population of 25,496. The parish touches Arreton, Brighstone, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, Chillerton and Gatcombe, Havenstreet...
Carisbrooke), Combley (on Robin Hill), Gurnard, Newport, and Rock (north of Brighstone). David Wharton Lloyd, Nikolaus Pevsner, (2006), The Buildings of England:...
at Newport, detachments at Niton, Whitwell, Godshill, Chillerton and Brighstone H Company at Denmark Road, Cowes, detachment at Northwood The Territorials...
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Officer, Scunthorpe Borough Council. Frederick Fortescue Hollis, Member, Brighstone Parish Council, Isle of Wight. Catherine Holmes. For services to the elderly...
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