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.

The area around Binstead features a number of interesting ruins including Culver Battery, and Carisbrooke Castle.

Whitecliff Bay, Compton Bay and Downs, Compton Bay, and Totland are great places to visit near Binstead if you like beaches.

The area around Binstead boasts some of the best towns including Newport - Isle of Wight, Ryde, Cowes, Shanklin, Sandown, and Yarmouth.

Binstead is near some unmissable castles like Carisbrooke Castle,

Binstead's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Carisbrooke Castle, St Helens Duver, The Needles Lighthouse, The Needles Battery, and Fort Victoria.

Binstead has some unmissable geological features nearby like Compton Bay and Downs, and The Needles.

Culver Down is a great place to visit close to Binstead if you like hiking areas.

Binstead History

There are some historic monuments around Binstead:

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