Bembridge
Bembridge is a town and also civil parish located on the easternmost factor of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, bring about the doubtful claim by some homeowners that Bembridge is the biggest town in England. Bembridge is house to most of the Island's richest residents. The population had lowered to 3,688 at the 2011 Census. Bembridge sits at the extreme eastern point of the Isle of Wight. Prior to land improvement the location of Bembridge and Yaverland was nearly an island, divided from the rest of the Isle of Wight by Brading Haven. On the Joan Blaeu map of 1665, Bembridge is shown as Binbridge I?le, virtually divided from the remainder of Wight by River Yar. Prior to the Victorian age Bembridge was a collection of wood huts as well as farmhouses, which only consolidated into a true village with the building of the church in 1827 (later restored in 1846).