Ventnor

Ventnor

 town (parish), Isle of Wight (Wight, Isle of), historic county of Hampshire, England. The town lies along the southeastern coast of the Isle of Wight. From a small fishing hamlet it grew in the 19th century into a fashionable resort, noted for its mild climate and long hours of sunshine. The novelist Charles Dickens lived for a time nearby, and the poet Algernon Swinburne is buried in the churchyard. Pop. (2001) 6,257.

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