Foreland Fields
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Foreland Fields is a part of Bembridge
- which claims to be Europe's largest village, consisting of bungalows built in the 1970s, but for a pub called the "Crab and Lobster"- a dining and seafood pub of almost legendary status, overlooking Bembridge ledge, an area formerly popular with shipwrecks and smuggling, but also for crab and lobster fishing. There is a Coastguard Station and remains of a wartime pillbox on the beach.
Bembridge
Bembridge is an affluent village and civil parish located on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, leading to claims by residents that Bembridge is the largest village in England, and occasional claims that it is...
- which claims to be Europe's largest village, consisting of bungalows built in the 1970s, but for a pub called the "Crab and Lobster"- a dining and seafood pub of almost legendary status, overlooking Bembridge ledge, an area formerly popular with shipwrecks and smuggling, but also for crab and lobster fishing. There is a Coastguard Station and remains of a wartime pillbox on the beach.