Yarmouth Pier was opened in 1876. It received Grade 2 listed status in 1975. Originally 685 ft () long, it's now 609 ft
Yarmouth Pier was opened in 1876. It received Grade 2 listed status in 1975. Originally 685 ft () long, it's now 609 ft (186m) but is still the longest timber pier in England open to the public, and is adjacent to the docking point for Wightlink is one of the smallest towns in the United Kingdom. It had a 2001 population of just 791(compared with about 600 at the beginning of the 19th century). Yarmouth is a town and port in the west of the Isle of Wight, in the south of the UK, at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. Yarmouth is a crossing point for the river and has been a settlement for over a thousand years. The first record of a settlement here was in King Ethelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of 991. It was originally called Eremue, meaning "muddy estuary". Still apparent is the Normans street plan of Yarmouth on a grid It grew rapidly, being given its first Charter as a town in 1135. Until the building of the castle, regular raids on the island by the French continued, and in 1544 the town of Yarmouth was reputed to have been burned down. Legend has it that the church bells were carried off to Cherbourg or Boulogne. Yarmouth Castle was built in 1547, now in the care of English Heritage. In effect it is a gun platform built by Henry VIII to strengthen the Solent and protect the Isle of Wight, historically an important strategical foothold for any attempted invasion of England. In St. James's Church there is a monument to the 17th-century admiral Sir Robert Holmes who based his operations at Yarmouth. He obtained it in a raid on a French ship, when he seized an unfinished statue of Louis XIV of France and forced the sculptor to finish it with his own head rather than the king's.
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Location: Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Photo credit: © Philip Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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