Shide, Isle of Wight

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Shide is a small settlement on the Isle of Wight. The Shide Hill House which was located here was the retirement home of Professor John Milne (1850-1913), inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph after he retired from the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, Japan.

There is a cycleway between Shide and Merstone.

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Shide Quarry, located to the east of the village is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Local Nature Reserve owned by the County Council. The site was notified in 1971 for its biological features which show all stages of succession from bare chalk rock to Ash woodland. It is one of 41 SSSIs on the Isle of Wight.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Isle of Wight
Alverstone Marshes • America Wood • Arreton Down • Bembridge Down • Bembridge School And Cliffs • Bonchurch Landslips • Bouldnor And Hamstead Cliffs • Brading Marshes To St. Helen's Ledges • Briddlesford Copses • Calbourne Down • Colwell Bay • Compton Chine To Steephill Cove • Compton Down • Cranmore • Cridmore Bog • Eaglehead and Bloodstone Copses • Freshwater Marshes • Garston's Down • Greatwood And Cliff Copses • Headon Warren And West High Down • King's Quay Shore • Lacey's Farm Quarry • Lake Allotments • Locks Farm Meadow • Medina Estuary • Mottistone Down • Newtown Harbour • Northpark Copse • Parkhurst Forest • Priory Woods • Prospect Quarry • Rew Down • Rowridge Valley • Ryde Sands and Wootton Creek • Shide Quarry • St Lawrence Bank • The Wilderness • Thorness Bay • Ventnor Downs • Whitecliff Bay And Bembridge Ledges • Yar Estuary
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