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The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 55 ]
On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...
St Cecilia's Abbey in 2016. Founded in 1882 and dedicated to the Peace of the Heart of Jesus, St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, belongs to the Benedictine Order, and in particular to the Solesmes Congregation of Dom Prosper Guéranger. [1] The nuns live a traditional monastic life of prayer, work and study in accordance with the ancient ...
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United Kingdom. Coordinates. 50°40′22″N 1°09′16″W / 50.6728°N 1.1544°W / 50.6728; -1.1544. Construction started. 1st century. Demolished. 4th century. Brading Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display in Brading on the Isle of Wight.
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Design and construction. Architect (s) John James. Appuldurcombe House (also spelt Appledorecombe or Appledore Combe) is the shell of a large 18th-century English Baroque country house of the Worsley family. [1] The house is situated near to Wroxall on the Isle of Wight, England. It is now managed by English Heritage and is open to the public.