Binstead is a village on the

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island of England. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents, the Isle of ...

. It is located in the northeast part of the Island, west of

Ryde Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 23,999 according to the 2011 Census and an estimate of 24,847 in 2019. Its growth as a seaside resort came af ...

on the main road

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between Ryde and Newport. In the 2011 Census Binstead had been incorporated within

whilst still retaining its electoral ward,

Binsted and Fishbourne Binsted is a village and large civil parish in East Hampshire, England. It is about east of Alton, its nearest town. The parish is one of the largest in northern Hampshire and covers almost . It contains two villages, Bucks Horn Oak and Holt ...

Amenities

The village has a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

/general store as its sole remaining store; until the end of February 2009 when it was removed, it also had a

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outside. There was also a second shop located opposite the Post Office until sometime in the 2000s, but it is now a residential dwelling. Binstead has a primary school, two recreational fields, access to a public common (Dame Anthony's Common) and beach (Player's Beach). Brickfields, a small horse riding centre, was located off Newnham Road to the south of Binstead but it closed in 2013. The local pub is "The Fleming Arms", located on Binstead Road.

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bus route 9 serves the main road every 10 minutes in the daytime between

and Newport. Route 4 links the town with

East Cowes East Cowes is a town and civil parish in the north of the Isle of Wight, on the east bank of the River Medina, next to its west bank neighbour Cowes. The two towns are connected by the Cowes Floating Bridge, a chain ferry operated by the Isle ...

and local route 37 covers other areas linking to Ryde.

History

Binstead is recorded in 1086 in the ''

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'' as Benestede. It became known for the quality of its

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which led to a local quarrying industry, the result of which is still visible in the village's landscape and place names. The nearby

Quarr Abbey Quarr Abbey ( French: ''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quarr'') is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor" (rhyming with "for"). It belongs to the Catho ...

takes its name from ‘quarry’ and the suffix ‘pitts’ is occasionally found in house and road names. The quarries were known as pits. Though there are reports that it has been quarried as far back as the Roman occupation, the earliest recorded quarrying was by the first Norman Bishop of

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Walkelin Walkelin (died 1098) was the first Norman bishop of Winchester. Life Walkelin was of noble birth and related to William the Conqueror, whom he served as a royal chaplain.hide (60 acres) of land by

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. He used the stone to construct

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starting in 1079. Subsequently, the stone was used in the building of

Chichester Cathedral Chichester Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in West Sussex, England. It was founded as a cathedral in 1075, when the seat of the ...

Romsey Abbey Romsey Abbey is the name currently given to a parish church of the Church of England in Romsey, a market town in Hampshire, England. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was the church of a Benedictine Order, Benedictine nunnery. The surv ...

and part of the

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. During the

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Daniel List, a local shipwright, successfully carried out shipbuilding at Binstead for the

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, comprising three 36-gun frigates - HMS ''Magicienne'' in 1812, and HMS ''Tagus'' and HMS ''Tiber'' in 1813. By 1905 the parish had 1,206 acres of land.

Churches

Binstead has two churches the Methodist Church, built in 1889,Binstead Methodist Church
/ref> and the Church of the Holy Cross, constructed around 1150 (though went through remodelling in the 13th and 19th centuries). The monastery

is also located nearby.

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