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| − | |text='''Yarmouth''' is a port town of Hampshire, on the western coast of the Isle of Wight. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. The town is a crossing point for the river, originally with a ferry, replaced with a road bridge in 1863. | + | |text='''Yarmouth''' is a port town of [[Hampshire]], on the western coast of the Isle of Wight. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. The town is a crossing point for the river, originally with a ferry, replaced with a road bridge in 1863. |
| − | Yarmouth has been a settlement for over a thousand years, and is one of the very earliest recorded on the Isle of Wight. The first record of a settlement here was in King Ethelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of 991 }}<noinclude>{{FP data}} | + | Yarmouth has been a settlement for over a thousand years, and is one of the very earliest recorded on the Isle of Wight. The first record of a settlement here was in King Ethelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of 991.}}<noinclude>{{FP data}} |
Latest revision as of 10:06, 23 August 2018
Yarmouth, Isle of WightYarmouth is a port town of Hampshire, on the western coast of the Isle of Wight. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. The town is a crossing point for the river, originally with a ferry, replaced with a road bridge in 1863. Yarmouth has been a settlement for over a thousand years, and is one of the very earliest recorded on the Isle of Wight. The first record of a settlement here was in King Ethelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of 991. (Read more) |
