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Beach at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England.
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England, United Kingdom
Ventnor, town (parish), Isle of Wight, historic county of Hampshire, southern England. The town lies along the islandās southeastern coast.
From a small fishing hamlet it grew in the 19th century into a fashionable resort, noted for its mild climate and long hours of sunshine. The novelist Charles Dickens lived for a time nearby, and the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne is buried in the churchyard. Pop. (2001) 6,257; (2011) 5,976.
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