Shide is a small settlement on the Isle of Wight, some of which is considered to be in the Newport conurbation. Shide Hill House which is the white house near the top of St. George's Lane 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. The Isle of Wight County Cricket Ground is just south of Shide.
There is a cycleway between Shide and Merstone, and public transport is provided by Southern Vectis buses on route 2, route 3 and local route 38.[1]
Shide railway station was opened in 1875 and closed in 1956.
Shide Quarry, located to the east of the village was quarried for chalk during the first half of 20th Century. The prominent west-facing slope is a major landmark on Newport’s skyline. The site is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Local Nature Reserve owned by the Isle of Wight Council. It is open to the public. The site was notified in 1971 for its biological features which show all stages of succession from bare chalk rock to Ash woodland.[2] It is one of 41 SSSIs on the Isle of Wight.
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