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Shalfleet

Shalfleet is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. It is located between Yarmouth and Newport in the northwest of the island.

The civil parish includes the settlements of Cranmore, Hamstead, Newbridge, Ningwood, Shalcombe and Thorley Street, and had a population of 1,627 at the 2021 census.

Its name means '(the place at) the shallow stream', from Old English sceald (dative case scealdan) and flēot, referring to the Caul Bourne.

838 (in a 12th century copy of a Saxon charter): æt Scealdan fleote

1086 (Domesday Book): Seldeflet

1141–1142: Schaldflete

1189–1204: Scaldeflet

1397: Shalflete

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