Nettlestone

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| map_type = Isle of Wight

| official_name = Nettlestone

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| civil_parish = Nettlestone and Seaview

| unitary_england = Isle of Wight

| lieutenancy_england = Isle of Wight

| region = South East England

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| os_grid_reference = SZ624905

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Nettlestone is a village on the Isle of Wight, England, about {{convert|4|mi|km|0}} south east from Ryde. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having been in existence in 1066.[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchtype=browserefine&query=scope%3dnettlestone&catid=24&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=* http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchtype=browserefine&query=scope%3dnettlestone&catid=24&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=*] nationalarchives.gov.uk{{dead link|date=May 2025}} Together with Seaview, it forms the civil parish[http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/geographic_area_listings/downloads/EnglishParishes&WelshCommunities_N&C_2004.xls English Parishes & Welsh Communities N&C 2004] (Excel) of Nettlestone and Seaview.

The Priory Bay Hotel between Nettlestone & St Helens is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young lady who died there at the age of 14.[http://www.ghost-island.co.uk/Priory%20Hotel%20ghost.wmv The Blue Lady of Nettlestone Priory] television clip.

Public transport is provided by Southern Vectis bus route 8, which operates between Ryde and Newport via Seaview, Bembridge and Sandown including intermediate villages, once an hour from Ryde bus station.{{cite web|url=http://www.islandbuses.info/routelist.shtml|title=Southern Vectis bus routes|publisher=Southern Vectis|accessdate=2009-12-20|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130004912/http://www.islandbuses.info/routelist.shtml|archivedate=2009-11-30}}

The local school is Nettlestone Primary which has taught local children since 1905. It moved to its current location in January 1906.

The village is home to the Bucks School Camp Association on Eddington Road.

Virginia Bottomley was elevated to the peerage as Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone when she retired from the House of Commons in 2005.

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