Eastern Yar

This article is about the River Yar in the eastern part of the Isle of Wight. For other Yars, including the other River Yar on the Isle of Wight, see Yar (disambiguation).

River Yar (Eastern Yar)
River
288px The Eastern Yar at Brading marshes
Country	England
Region	Isle of Wight
Tributaries
- left	Scotchells Brook
Source
- location	Niton, Isle of Wight
Mouth	The Solent
- location	Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Length	20 km (12 mi)

The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St. Catherine's Down near Niton, close to the southern point of the island. It flows across the Lower Cretaceous rocks of the eastern side of the island before finding its way through the gap in the central Upper Cretaceous chalk ridge of the Island at Yarbridge, Brading across the now drained Brading Haven to Bembridge Harbour and Spithead, near the eastern end of the Island.

The Yar is one of two rivers on the Isle of Wight with the same name. It is referred to as the Eastern Yar if it is necessary to distinguish between them.

References

Ordnance Survey One Inch Seventh Series sheet 180

External links

• Isle of Wight Estuaries Project