Godshill

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Godshill Church, circa 1910
Godshill Church, circa 1910

Godshill is a village on the Isle of Wight with a population of approximately 2,800 (1998). It is located between Newport and Ventnor in the southeast of the island.

Ford Farm near Godshill was the site of the first ever Isle of Wight Festival in 1968. It attracted 10,000 people to see acts such as Jefferson Airplane and the mystical Arthur Brown.

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Since 1952 Godshill has been the home of a model village[1] of itself and Shanklin's old village at a scale of 1:10. It is so detailed that it contains a scale model of the model village. Within that second model there is a third, even smaller model of the village.


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