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Telegraph
7 days ago
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The 20 best things to do on the Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight caters for everyone. I speak from personal experience; I first visited as a child, then as a lover of wildlife and walking, good food and drink and latterly as a parent of young, then older children. The island has excellent conventional attractions and does a fantastic job of interpreting its ancient and wartime history, as well as its relationship with the sea. In many ways, though, the great outdoors is the main event, and your best memories may well be of wandering along a beach and stumbling upon a fossil or spotting a red squirrel in a woodland. All our recommendations below have been hand selected and tested by our destination expert to help you discover the best things to do on the Isle of Wight. Find out more below, or for more Isle of Wight inspiration, see our guides to its best hotels restaurants, bars and pubs, and beaches. Find things to do by type: Best for royalty and history Best for families Best for museum lovers Best for foodies Best for walkers Best for nature lovers Best for seaside Victoriana Best for royalty and history Osborne House Discover Queen Victoria's 'little paradise' Osborne House was where Queen Victoria was most amused, describing it as her 'little paradise'. Built in Italianate style and set among lawns edged by veteran oaks and yews, sumptuous state rooms and opulently furnished corridors are warmed by personal touches such as marble sculptures cast from moulds of plaster of limbs of the couple's children. Insider tip: The attractive shingle beach behind the house is easily missed and on the way you will see the bathing machine – it brings to mind a cowboy's wagon – where Queen Victoria got changed before she took to the water.
Telegraph
06-07-2025
- Telegraph
The 21 best restaurants on the Isle of Wight
With more than 50 local food and drink producers on the Isle of Wight – from jams to tomatoes, meat to cheese, ice cream, beer, wine and gin and, recently, whisky – chefs are spoilt for choice when it comes to sourcing their menus. The island has a handful of excellent restaurants that offer everything from fine dining to wholesome locally reared and produced dishes. Seafood is an obvious highlight, but mixed among the handful of high-end establishments are several outstanding options in more informal settings, from pubs to seaside shacks. All our recommendations below have been hand selected and tested by our destination expert to help you discover the best restaurants on the Isle of Wight. Find out more below, or for more Isle of Wight inspiration, see our guides to the region's best hotels, bars and pubs, things to do and beaches. Find restaurants by type: Best all-rounders Bonchurch Inn You'll find this former coach house in an old stableyard complex tucked away among the folds and hairpin turns of Bonchurch village. You feel as if you are stepping into the 1930s with vintage panelling and seating divided by frosted glass. Thanks to the pub's long-term ownership by the Besozzi family, the menu, from crab bruschetta to pizza, is dominated by excellent Italian food. The menu describes the lasagne as 'life changing' – mouthwatering and worth lingering over – and it is.
