WALKING THE TRAIL USING A MOBILE PHONE:
- Enable your data to connect to the website while on the trail.
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Turn your screen rotation on and hold your device as
landscape - Follow the stone markers in the pavement, they run one side of York Avenue to minimise crossing of roads.
WALKING THE TRAIL WITHOUT A PHONE:
- A printed version of the trail is available at the Osborne House shop, East Cowes Heritage Centre and the Red Funnel terminal, priced £2.
Victoria usually spent around three months at Osborne each year. She travelled by train from Windsor Castle to Gosport, boarded the royal yacht at the Clarence Yard and then crossed the Solent arriving on the Island at her private landing place at Trinity Pier.
The route of this trail will take you along York Avenue. This road was built at the request of the Queen to re-route traffic away from the Osborne Estate and allow her more privacy. It is the thoroughfare used by many of the visitors who feature on the trail who either walked or rode in a carriage between the landing and Osborne House. It is the road used to celebrate Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and also the route of her funeral procession on the way to Windsor Castle.
Queen Victoria opens the Town Hall, 1897. (
Diamond Jubilee, 1897, York
Queen Victoria’s funeral carriage travels down York Avenue towards Trinity Pier.
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