- Yaverland
Yaverland is a village on the
Isle of Wight , just north ofSandown . It has about 200 houses, no shops and one post box. About 1/3 of a mile away from the village, behindCulver Down , is theYaverland Manor and Church. There is a pub on Culver Down called the "Culver Haven" and an obelisk to the Earl of Yarborough.Holotype fossils have been discovered here ofYaverlandia and a pterosaur,Caulkicephalus . The White Air extreme sports festival takes place annually at Yaverland pay and display car park.The older part of the village is spread along the road to Bembridge by the Norman Church. The newer part is along the seafront, consisting entirely of a bungalow estate. The name appears to come from a local rendition of "over land" - being the land over the once-tidal causeway. An alternative derivation is from "Yar Island".In the fields below Yaverland the
Time Team TV series discovered a Roman smithy.In 1545 a French force was intercepted by local levies crossing the Downs from a landing atWhitecliff Bay in order to attackSandown Castle and link up with a force from Bonchurch. The French fought their way into Sandown but were defeated at the fort.TheIsle of Wight Zoo is in Yaverland. The zoo has a tiger breeding program. The zoo is built on the remains of theGranite Fort built byLord Palmerston as a defense against the French in 1860. The grounds were used by the military duringWorld War II as part of the Pluto pipeline to send oil under theEnglish Channel toFrance to fuel the Allied war efforts.By the sea is the Yaverland Yacht Club and along the seashore are fossil bearing beds, which may be explored by guided walks from
Dinosaur Isle .Southern Vectis bus route 10 links the village with the towns of Newport,Bembridge andSandown , including intermediate towns.cite web | year = 2008 | url = http://www.islandbuses.info/r10.shtml | title = Southern Vectis bus route 10 | publisher = www.islandbuses.info | accessdate = 2008-05-04]References
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A273827 "Yaverland, Isle of Wight, UK"] ,
BBC ,h2g2 , 14th March 2000
* [http://www.isleofwightzoo.com/ Isle of Wight Zoo website]
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