Cowes
Cowes is an English port town as well as civil parish on the Island of Wight. Cowes is situated on the west financial institution of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller community of East Cowes on the east bank. Both communities are linked by the Cowes Drifting Bridge, a chain ferry. The population was 9,663 in the 2001 census, which increased during the regatta in very early August. The population at the 2011 census was 10,405. Charles Godfrey Leland's 19th century verses explain the towns poetically as "Both wonderful Cowes that in loud rumbling roar/This on the eastern, that the western shore". Cowes has been seen as a home for international private yacht auto racing because the founding of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815. It provides its name to the globe's earliest regular regatta, Cowes Week, which occurs annually in the very first week of August. Later on, powerboat races are held. Much of the town's design is still greatly affected by the design of luxuriant building that Prince Albert popularised.