Mottistone

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Mottistone
Hampshire
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Mottistone Manor and Garden
Location
Island: Isle of Wight
Grid reference: SZ405837
Location: 50°39’6"N, 1°25’40"W
Data
Postcode: PO30
Local Government
Council: Isle of Wight
Parliamentary
constituency:
Isle of Wight

Mottistone is a village on the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, sitting in the southern part of the island known as the Back of the Wight. It is eight miles south-west of Newport in the southwest of the island. Here us a National Trust property; Mottistone Manor.

Church

Mottistone Church

The parish church, St Peter and St Paul, stands in the midst of this tiny village. It is part of the West Wight Mission Community

The church hosts part of an annual Christmas Tree festival (the Brighstone Christmas Tree Festival) that has become very popular.

History

The Island's only megalithic monument, the Longstone is situated nearby. The name Mottistone (the Speaker's or pleader's stone) almost certainly derives from the Longstone, which was used as a meeting place (or "moot-stone") in Anglo-Saxon times.

Geography

Mottistone Down to the north of the village has ben designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, covering 77½ acres; it adjoins the Brighstone Down, the central part of the ridge. Most of the area is owned by the National Trust, including the manor, down and cottages, and is biologically important due to its chalk and neutral grasslands.

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