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Heritage Open Days on the Isle of Wight

Experience the Island’s fantastic local history, architecture and culture for free.
Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th September 2007

Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s fantastic architecture, history and culture. As part of this major national event (coordinated by the Civic Trust and English Heritage), the Isle of Wight is offering you a chance to experience its fantastic local history, architecture and culture for free.

You will be able to visit interesting buildings, which would usually be closed to the public or where an admission fee would normally be charged. There will also be a variety of guided tours on offer. Please keep checking the site for 2007 events.

Last Years Events included

• Alverstone Marshes Wildlife Walk
• Appuldurcombe House & Estate (Appuldurcombe Road, Wroxall)
• Appuldurcombe Landscape Park Walk
• Bembridge Windmill
• Brading Roman Villa (Morton Old Road)
• Carisbrooke Castle
• Classic Boat Museum (Newport Harbour)
• Dimbola Lodge Museum (Terrace Lane, Freshwater Bay)
• East Cowes Heritage Centre (8 Clarence Road, East Cowes)
• Freshwater Bay Ghost and History Walk
• Brading Station – The Closure of Island Stations and The End of Steam Exhibition
• H.M.P. Parkhurst Prison Guided Tour
• History & Landscape of Tennyson Down (Freshwater)
• Museum of Island History (Newport Guildhall)
• Newport Pubs Guided Walk
• Newtown Old Town Hall
• Newport Roman Villa (Cypress Road)
• Osborne House
• Quarr Abbey
• The Underwater Archaeology Centre (Fort Victoria, West Hill Lane)
• The Needles Old Battery
• Ventnor Heritage Museum (11, Spring Hill, Ventnor)