Route 3 - Seaview to Bembridge (The Isle of Bembridge)

As recently as the 16th century, Bembridge was almost an island, all but cut off from the rest of the Isle of Wight by the River Yar. Some 1,500 years earlier the river and estuary were deep enough for a harbour at Brading Haven, where Roman trading vessels could moor. Yet by the time the Tudors came to the throne, it had begun to silt up, a process later completed by the Victorians who drained the land for grazing. The Isle of Bembridge was no more but now joined to the rest of the Isle of Wight by a soggy marshland.