Binstead is a Village in the county of Isle of Wight.

Binstead postcode: PO33 3QZ

Retail in Binstead

There are great places to visit near Binstead including some great villages, ruins, beaches, towns, castles, historic buildings, geological features and hiking areas.

There are a several good villages in the Binstead area like Bembridge, Carisbrooke, Fishbourne, Wootton Bridge, St Helens - Isle of Wight, Shanklin Old Village, and Luccombe - Isle of Wight.

Culver Battery, and Carisbrooke Castle are great places to visit near Binstead if you like ruins.

Whitecliff Bay, Compton Bay and Downs, Compton Bay, and Totland are some of Binstead best beaches to visit near Binstead.

Newport - Isle of Wight, Ryde, Cowes, Shanklin, Sandown, and Yarmouth are great places to visit near Binstead if you like towns.

The area close to Binstead boasts some of the best castles including Carisbrooke Castle.

Binstead has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Carisbrooke Castle, St Helens Duver, The Needles Lighthouse, The Needles Battery, and Fort Victoria.

Binstead's best nearby geological features can be found at Compton Bay and Downs, and The Needles.

The area around Binstead's best hiking areas can be found at Culver Down.

Binstead History

There are some historic monuments around Binstead:

• Long Curtain, King's Bastion and Spur Redoubt
• Nine barrows and part of a later enclosure 350m north east of sea mark: the barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Bowl barrow 275m north west of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Three pillow mounds 540m north east of sea mark on Ashey Down
• Fort Monckton
• Fortifications S of Trinity Church
• Bowl barrow 290m north east of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Two fishponds associated with Quarr Abbey at Puckers Copse, Newnham
• Bowl barrow and part of a later enclosure 490m north east of sea mark, the barrow forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Two bowl barrows 130m south west of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze age round barrow cemtery on Ashey Down
• Bowl barrow 220m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Bowl barrow known as Michael Morey's Hump, and a Highway Commission barrier on Gallows Hill
• Bowl barrow on Nunwell Down known as The Devil's Punchbowl
• Ashey Down Sea Mark
• Two bowl barrows forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery, and part of a field system east of Eaglehead Copse
• Fort Elson
• Three bowl barrows 220m WSW of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Sandown Barrack Battery
• Gilkicker fort
• Southsea Castle
• Portsmouth Dockyard, the Docks
• Fortifications N of Mumby Road
• Quarr Abbey
• Point Battery including King Edward's Tower and Square Tower
• Bowl barrow on Culver Down
• Field system on Brading Down
• Three pillow mounds 810m NNE of Kern Farm
• St Helen's Fort
• Monastic grange at Haseley Manor
• Medieval settlement 100m south east and 350m north east of East Ashey Manor Farm
• Puckpool mortar battery
• Yaverland Battery, 660m south of Yaverland Church
• Portsmouth Garrison church
• Bowl barrow on Arreton Down
• Bowl barrow 280m WNW of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Fort Blockhouse
• Portsmouth Dockyard, the Block Mills and Stores 35 and 36
• Steyne Wood Battery
• Two bowl barrows 180m WNW of Puck House, Fishbourne
• No Man's Land Fort
• Fort Grange
• Motte and bailey castle near Apple Dumpling Bridge, south of Rowner
• No. 5 Battery, Stokes Bay Lines
• Downend Romano-British villa
• No 1 Battery, Stokes Bay Lines
• Gunboat Traverser System
• Two pillow mounds 400m ENE of sea mark on Ashey Down
• Bowl barrow 340m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• A group of 11 round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery, and part of a field system east of Eaglehead Copse
• Bowl barrow 370m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Brading Roman villa
• Bowl barrow 110m north west of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Former Board of Ordnance Gunwharf, HMS Vernon
• Bowl barrow 390m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Fort Brockhurst
• Bembridge Fort
• Earthwork defences at Priddy's Hard
• Spitbank Fort