Seaview lies  to the west of Ryde on the northeast coastline and you can walk along the Ryde esplanade past Puckpool Park and Appley Tower to it,  there are two roads to it also The road from Ryde follows the coast and there is a spur to St Helens which runs through Nettlestone.

Seaview holds a commanding position over the Spithead and the open sea and like most island towns and villages on the coast was notorious for smuggling, but is now a very attractive seaside hamlet with old houses and narrow streets and a busy sailing centre in the summer months, it is an ideal viewpoint to watch the ships coming and going up the Solent to Portsmouth and Southampton as well as watch the closing stages of the Round the Island Yacht race.

A favourite place of mine while on holiday with my parents, when we would often walk along the Esplanade at Ryde and I would walk along the sands stopping to pick up the odd shell and then end up for a shandy in the pub which was at the end of the path. Another time when riding we would have a gallop along the sands from Ryde to Seaview and then on to Bembridge.

Puckpool Park when I was little had a life size robot elephant which used to give rides, not sure how it worked but it actually went around the park with somebody leading it and often us kids thought it was real, there were old gun emplacements here as well, it got turned into a Warners Holiday Park  but I believe this has gone and once more it is peaceful here, there is a Wireless Museum here as well. The hamlet holds its own one-day regatta here in mid-August.

Seaview is also reputed to be the place where the last invasion of England occurred, back in 1547 a group of French soldiers landed here to try and get the fleet out of Portsmouth to repel them, but the local militia drove them back and it was then that the Mary Rose was sunk and now it has been recovered and placed in its own museum in Portsmouth.