Wootton Creek Photo courtesy of IOWCAM

The main attraction at Wootton is the creek which wanders on both sides of the busy road from Newport to Ryde, upstream there are green fields and  copses while a different picture is painted downstream with small boatyards and loads of pleasure craft dotted around and where the mouth of the creek meets the Solent is the Fishbourne car ferry connecting the island to Portsmouth with a 35 minute crossing.

Wootton was listed in the Domesday Survey and was once held by Queen Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor and it included a warren and a "fishery in the arm of the sea" in 1331 this was probably Wootton Creek. By the Sloop Inn there was a tide mill and the mill dam is  the causeway now carrying the road. There were six or seven tidal mills on the island and a barge carried the corn over from Southampton to be ground here and the flour was sold all over the island, The mill ceased working in 1945 and was pulled down in 1962.

The church may be a simple buildig its nave and chancel bing one the chancel is full of bright colours. Between the beams the roof has been painted and the stone reredos is on pillars with a background made up of coloured marbles.