Chale Green

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Chale Green is a hamlet about a mile inland from the village of Chale on the Isle of Wight. Officially it is part of Chale.

Originally Chale Green was known as Stroudgreen. There is a Stroud Green Farm north of Chale Green. By 1870, around Chale Green was a wheelwright, carpenter, chimney sweep business, The New Inn tavern, a blacksmith, a grocer and a shoemaker. Sprake's Brewery was founded in Chale Green in 1833. A sawpit existed in the early 1900s in Chale Green. The Star Pub in Chale Green recently closed.

Chale Green was part of Charles Seely's property in the 1800s. Charles Seely built the local Military Road in the 1860s to bolster the defense of the coastal region. This was meant to allow the deployment of troops along the clifftops in case of an invasion.

Spanners Close, the largest residential development in the Chale area was built to the west of Chale Green in the late 1970s. It consists of 70 housing units.

Chale Green is home to the Chale Kite Flyers, an informal group of kite flyers.