Country House Hotels in the Isle of Wight
A favourite destination of Queen Victoria, the Isle of Wight is England’s largest island. It is also England’s smallest county, but only when the tide is in though! Rutland boasts the distinction of being the smallest county when the tide is out. Small or not, there is much to explore on the Isle of Wight, from Brading Roman Villa near Sandown to the Norman Carisbroke Castle, where King Charles I was imprisoned before his execution in 1649.