Binstead

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Binstead is a village on the Isle of Wight. it is located two kilometres from Ryde in the northeast of the island. It has mainly expanded into a large housing estate and in recent years has lost many of the small shops due to lack of trade. There are two churches (the Methodist and the Holy Cross) and a monastery (Quarr Abbey).

There is a beach within walking distance and a small horse centre on its outskirts. It contatns one primary school (Binstead County Primary School) and two recreational fields as well as having access to a public common. Average house prices are around £220,000 (2005). There is a post office and a corner shop as well as one of the Island's main roads running though linking Newport and Ryde along with the small communities in between. It has a vast local history and is noted for this.

[edit] Some local history

There is a well-known gravestone in the Holy Cross graveyard with the inscription:

To the memory of THOs SIVELL who was cruely fhot on board his floop by fome officers of customs of the Port of Portfmouth on the 15th June 1785 at the age of 64 years leaving a difconfolate widow & family.

All you that pafs pray look and fee

How foon my life was took from me

By those officers as you hear

They fpilled my Blood that was fo dear

But God is Good and juft and true

And will reward each to their due^[1]