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| | BBC - h2g2 - East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK |
 | | East Cowes is one of the quietest towns on the Isle of Wight. |
 | | East Cowes, typically, is also the only town on the Isle of Wight to never have had a railway station, or even line, near it. |
 | | For many years it was larger than West Cowes, but in 1540, when Henry VIII feared an invasion over his breaking-away from the Catholic Church in 1538, two Castles were built in the area, one in East Cowes, and a larger one at West Cowes. |
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