a town and parish on the eastern side of the Isle of Wight, in the county of Hants, E.S.E. of Newport. The town is paved and lighted, and has a capacious but shallow harbour, which is dry at low water. It has little trade, depending chiefly on the rural inhabitants in its vicinity. It has a church, said to have been built in 1704, two dissenting chapels, a national school, and town-hall. Pop. of parish in 1851, 3046.