Knighton is a small hamlet near to Sandown on the Isle of Wight. Location within the British Isles Sandown is a seaside resort town on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England, neighbouring the town of Shanklin to the south. ... The Isle of Wight is an island off the south coast of England, opposite Southampton. ...
It is usually pronounced as Kay-nighton by local people, to avoid confusion with the larger, homophonic village of Niton, near Ventnor. Homonyms (in Greek homoios = identical and onoma = name) are words which have the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Location within the British Isles. ...
It is home to the ruined manor house of Knighton Gorges. All that is left of the house is the two stone gateposts, but it is rumoured to reappear each New Year's Eve in ghostly form. Locals have also reported seeing animal-like gargoyles on top of each gatepost; these figures were removed many years ago and all that is left is plain stone.
The Isle of Wight is approximately diamond in shape and covers an area of 147 square miles (381 square km).
The Isle of Wight became an island sometime after the end of the last Ice Age when post-glacial rebound caused the land level to sink, the Solent flooding and separating the island from the mainland.
After the Roman era the Isle of Wight was settled by the Jutes, a Germanic tribe, in the early stages of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
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