Isle of Wight it hosting three prisons: Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst, all located outside Newport near the main road to Cowes. Albany and Parkhurst were among the few Category A prisons in the UK until they were downgraded in the 1990s. The downgrading of Parkhurst was precipitated by a major escape: three prisoners (two murderers and a blackmailer) escaped from the prison on 3 January 1995 for four days, before being recaptured. Parkhurst enjoyed notoriety as one of the toughest jails in the United Kingdom, and housed many notable inmates including the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, New Zealand drug lord Terry Clark
St Paul's Church, Newport, Isle of Wight St Paul's Church, Newport, Isle of Wight St. Paul's Church, Newport is a parish church in the Church of England located in Barton, Isle of Wight and Newport, Isle of Wight. The church dates from 1844. It was designed by the architect James William Wild and is sited on Staplers Road in Barton, Newport. St Paul's was originally a district church in the parish of Whippingham, although serving the Barton area of Newport. It was built in a neo-Norman in style, with north and south aisles, an apse; there is a tower and spire at the west end of the