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By train
Directions from Brading station: Walk up the road away from the station and turn right at a brown pedestrian sign into a housing estate. After 50 metres, turn right at another brown sign between two houses. The path leads through a mesh swing gate, across the railway and down onto the river plain.
Follow the public footpath diagonally across the meadow to the old sea wall. To enter the reserve, turn right and walk along the old sea wall to the Great Sluice.
By bus
Brading. Southern Vectis bus no: 10 between Newport and Sandown. Hourly Monday to Saturday from 9.13 am to 5.43 pm (no Sunday service).
By road
The best access is by the island train to Brading station, which also makes an easy and fun day-trip from the mainland by directly-connecting train and ferry (Portsmouth to Ryde). Cars can park at the National Trust's Bembridge and Culver Down nearby.
Sat nav POI file
If you have a satellite navigation system that can accept POI files, please see our POI page for a download link and instructions.
Other ways to get to the reserve
From the mainland, take the train to Portsmouth harbour, transfer to the ferry across the Solent, then onto the train from Ryde Pier to Brading (Southampton to Brading: 2 hours. London Waterloo to Brading 3 hours).