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Gurnard
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Gurnard is located in Isle of Wight
Gurnard
Gurnard
Area 4.0863 km2 (1.5777 sq mi)
Population 1,682 (2011 census including Rew Street)
• Density 412/km2 (1,070/sq mi)
OS grid reference SZ478946
Civil parish
  • Gurnard
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town COWES
Postcode district PO31
Dialling code 01983
Police Hampshire
Fire Isle of Wight
Ambulance Isle of Wight
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
  • Isle of Wight
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UK
England
Isle of Wight
50°44′58″N 1°19′26″W / 50.74953°N 1.32375°W / 50.74953; -1.32375

Gurnard is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, two miles to the west of Cowes. Gurnard sits on the edge of Gurnard Bay, used by the Gurnard Sailing Club.

Gurnard's main street features a pub (Portland Inn), Doughty Newnham Chartered Surveyors office (a company of measurers and mapmakers), a few shops, and a few houses. The west end of the beach is called Gurnard Marsh and there is a stream called "The Luck" flows into the Solent.

A fort known as Gurnard Fort was built on a coastal high point west of Gurnard Marsh about 1600. The land washed away into the ocean, however, and the remains of the fort were lost and forgotten until a nearby Roman home was dug up in 1864, when the fort was found.

Transport is provided by the former Wightbus route 32 to and from Cowes, now run by Southern Vectis. There is no longer a direct service to Newport, Isle of Wight.

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