Bembridge is a village and also civil parish located on the easternmost factor of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, leading to the implausible insurance claim by some locals that Bembridge is the largest village in England. Bembridge is residence to a lot of the Island's most affluent citizens. The population had actually decreased to 3,688 at the 2011 Census. Bembridge sits at the extreme eastern factor of the Isle of Wight. Before land recovery the location of Bembridge and also Yaverland was practically an island, divided from the remainder of the Isle of Wight by Brading Haven. On the Joan Blaeu map of 1665, Bembridge is shown as Binbridge I?le, nearly separated from the remainder of Wight by River Yar. Prior to the Victorian age Bembridge was a collection of wood huts and also farmhouses, which only settled right into a true town with the building of the church in 1827 (later restored in 1846).