Cowes
Cowes is an English seaport town as well as civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is situated on the west bank of the tidewater of the River Medina, facing the smaller community of East Cowes on the east financial institution. The two towns are connected by the Cowes Floating Bridge, a chain ferryboat. The population was 9,663 in the 2001 census, which increased throughout the regatta in early August. The population at the 2011 census was 10,405. Charles Godfrey Leland's 19th century verses define the communities poetically as "The two fantastic Cowes that in loud rumbling roar/This on the eastern, that the western coast". Cowes has been viewed as a home for worldwide private yacht racing given that the founding of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815. It offers its name to the world's earliest normal regatta, Cowes Week, which happens every year in the very first week of August. Later, powerboat races are held. Much of the town's architecture is still heavily influenced by the design of luxuriant structure that Prince Albert popularised.
