Sandown Bay Holiday Centre, Self Catering accommodation Isle of Wight
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Amazon World Zoo Park is a special kind of attraction. Here you can learn about conservation and rainforests and come face to face with some of the worlds most unusual, beautiful and endangered creatures. Some you won't be able to see anywhere else in the UK or even Europe!
Overlooking the spectacular South West ‘Heritage Coast’ of the Isle of Wight, Blackgang Chine is an eccentric mix of exciting rides, goblins and fairies, dinosaurs, nursery rhyme characters, cowboys and Indians all set within rambling Victorian gardens and designed to appeal to the child in us all !
Colemans Animal Farm — the most enjoyable and fun-filled Attraction on the Isle of Wight!
New improved facilities and attractions for 2007, animals to feed plus daily interactive activities equals fun on the farm for the whole family.
Isle of Wight Wax Works Museum
The original Isle of Wight Wax Works Museum and Animal World was founded by Graham Osborne-Smith and opened in 1965. Today it is still owned by an Islander who has developed this historical and wonderfully interesting attraction into more than just a Wax Works. It now has many exciting ongoing developments, and in particular the huge new extension - World of Wheels in 2005. The site also boasts a unique and beautifully themed café serving homemade delights, a discount factory outlet store and a gift shop.
A Unique experience blending education with entertainment
Meet Giant Shire horses & Miniature Ponies
Learn from guided tours of their unique carriage collection and heritage museum
Enjoy Parades, Wagon Rides, Donkey Town and Farm Corner
Wonder at newborn foals, and other babies including their famous multi-colour piglets
Have fun in the play area and gift shop
Free coach parking
Calbourne - the only working Water Mill on the Isle of Wight
Set in 10 acres of stunning rural landscape, Calbourne Water Mill contains one of the oldest working water mills in the country, dating back to the Domesday Book.
A fascinating day out for all the family, enjoy looking around the Mill, Museums, Renewable Energy Centre; Wind Solar and Water Power displays.
Enjoy a walk through the Ancient Oak woodlands and around our ponds, cross the Rainbow Bridge to the Tranquil Island and discover the Dragon’s home.
Other pleasant surprises are punt hire on the mill stream, miniature golf on the putting green, and croquet on the lawn.
Feed the Peacocks, Doves, Ducks and Fish in the Mill Ponds
Sample our Traditional Home cooked food, Sunday Roasts prepared with fresh vegetables and our Home Baked Breads, Cakes, and Delicious Clotted Cream Teas in our fully Licenced Café and Gift shop.
Visit the Water Mill Pottery where you can see our potters at work. Milling is daily at 3pm except Saturdays during the summer season.
Julia Margaret Cameron bought two adjacent cottages from a local fisherman called Jacob Long in 1860. In order to make the house look more beautiful to her friends returning from the beach, they were linked by a central tower in the Gothic style current at the time. The structure dominates the skyline from Freshwater Bay and gives a focus to the surrounding area.
Dimbola Lodge served both as her home and her studio. It was here that the greatest of Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs were made.
Many years after the Camerons' returned to Ceylon the property was again divided into two parts. These were later renamed Dimbola, which became a private residence and holiday flats, and Cameron House which eventually became unoccupied and under the threat of demolition by developers. The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust obtained a grant from the Foundation of Sport and the Arts to Purchase Cameron House in October 1993. Shortly afterwards, the owner of Dimbola offered it to the Trust, and with major support from Olympus Cameras, the future of the house where Julia Margaret Cameron took up photography and produced the majority of her masterpieces is now secure - a tribute to the persistence of a group of dedicated volunteers and its council of management.
The Dinosaur Farm Museum was set up in 1992 on the site of the biggest dinosaur find on the Isle of Wight, the Barnes High Sauropod. Find out where and when to visit us. Discover amazing facts about the dinosaurs found on the Isle of Wight. Learn about the process of fossilization and how the experts recover and restore fossils over 100 million years old.
Learn about the process of fossilization and how the experts recover and restore fossils over 100 million years old.
At Fakenham Farm you start your journey through the hatching house where you will see the different the incubators, hatching eggs, chicks from different species of poultry and an egg display from Ostrich to quail.
In the barn you will meet the friendly goats and playful kids scampering about pigs and piglets and various types of turkeys.
Built on the north shore of the Isle of Wight to guard the Solent the remains of Fort Victoria now house a Marine Aquarium, a Sea Bed Archaeology Exhibition, a Planetarium and a Model Railway. The surrounding Country Park offers Seashore and Woodland walks and the site is one of the best vantage points for watching the Solents boats and shipping. The Fort's attractions together with the availability of a Countryside Ranger to give guided walks of the seashore and woodland make Fort Victoria an excellent, interesting and educational visit for school groups and any visitor to the Isle of Wight who wants to combine leisure with education.
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