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{{Infobox UK place
| country                  = England
| coordinates              = {{coord|50.7073|-01.4786|display=inline,title}}
| official_name            = Bouldnor
| population               =
| shire_district           = 
| shire_county             = [[Isle of Wight]]
| region                   = South East England
| constituency_westminster = [[Isle of Wight West (UK Parliament constituency)|Isle of Wight West]]
| post_town                = [[Yarmouth, Isle of Wight|Yarmouth]]
| postcode_district        = PO41
| postcode_area            = PO
| dial_code                = 
| os_grid_reference        = SZ3789
| static_image_name        = Port La Salle, Bouldnor, Isle of Wight, UK.jpg
| static_image_caption     = Port La Salle, Bouldnor 
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[[File:Bouldnor, Isle of Wight, UK.jpg|thumb|View west from the edge of Bouldnor Copse, above Bouldnor Cliff. In the distance is [[Yarmouth, Isle of Wight|Yarmouth]] with its [[Yarmouth Pier|pier]], and in the very far distance, [[Hurst Castle]].]]
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'''Bouldnor''' is a hamlet near [[Yarmouth, Isle of Wight|Yarmouth]] on the west coast of the [[Isle of Wight]] in southern [[England]]. It is the location of [[Bouldnor Battery]], a gun battery emplacement.

Bouldnor is located on the [[A3054 road]], and public transport is provided by buses on Southern Vectis route 7.

A soapbox derby was held in Bouldnor in 2005. It was a big success, so the event was repeated in 2006, though moved to Newport and renamed the Isle of Wight Soapbox Derby Challenge.<ref>[http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/may-date-for-islandand39s-soapbox-derby-11910.aspx "May Date for Island's Soapbox Derby"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020837/http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/may-date-for-islandand39s-soapbox-derby-11910.aspx |date=2017-12-26 }}, Isle of Wight County Press, Tuesday, April 18, 2006</ref>

== The Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Village seaport ==
[[File:Beach at Bouldnor, Isle of Wight, UK.jpg|thumb|left|The beach at Bouldnor]]
The [[Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Village]] is an internationally important archaeological site underwater off the coast of the Bouldnor Cliffs. Mesolithic flints and other items have been found. This material dates from 8000 years ago.<ref name="Williams">{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6928293.stm|title=Fight on to save Stone Age Atlantis|access-date=2007-09-06|publisher=BBC News|date=2007-08-08|author=Eleanor Williams }}</ref> During the [[Neolithic]], this was a seaport that supported trade with the Middle East (as wheat was present here 8,000 years ago, hundreds of years before wheat was grown anywhere in Europe).<ref name="Balter 2015">{{cite web|last1=Balter|first1=Michael|title=DNA recovered from underwater British site may rewrite history of farming in Europe.|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-recovered-underwater-british-site-may-rewrite-history-farming-europe|publisher=Science|access-date=16 March 2015}}</ref> [[Bronze Age Britain]] had large reserves of [[tin]] in the areas of [[Cornwall]] and [[Devon]]. [[Mining in Cornwall and Devon]] was then of global importance. Tin is necessary to [[smelting|smelt]] [[bronze]]. At that time the sea level was much lower and carts of tin were brought across the [[Solent]] at low tide<ref name="Adams 1877">{{cite book|last1=Adams|first1=William Henry Davenport|title=Nelsons' hand-book to the Isle of Wight.|date=1877|publisher=Oxford University|url=https://archive.org/details/nelsonshandbook02adamgoog|quote=Cotentin Peninsula trade Isle of Wight.|access-date=16 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hawkes 1984">{{cite journal|last1=Hawkes|first1=C.F.C|title=ICTIS Disentangled, and the British Tin Trade|journal=Oxford Journal of Archaeology|date=July 1984|volume=3|issue=2|pages=211–233|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230323962_ICTIS_DISENTANGLED_AND_THE_BRITISH_TIN_TRADE|access-date=16 March 2015|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0092.1984.tb00327.x}}</ref> for export from Bouldnor, possibly on the [[Ferriby Boats]] and later on the [[Blackfriars Ships]].

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