Bembridge
Bembridge is a town and also civil parish situated on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, bring about the implausible claim by some locals that Bembridge is the largest village in England. Bembridge is residence to a number of the Island's most affluent residents. The population had lowered to 3,688 at the 2011 Census. Bembridge sits at the severe eastern factor of the Isle of Wight. Before land reclamation the location of Bembridge and also Yaverland was practically an island, divided from the rest of the Isle of Wight by Brading Haven. On the Joan Blaeu map of 1665, Bembridge is revealed as Binbridge I?le, virtually separated from the remainder of Wight by River Yar. Prior to the Victorian period Bembridge was a collection of wooden huts as well as farmhouses, which only consolidated into a real village with the building of the church in 1827 (later restored in 1846).