| 词条 | Orchard Bay |
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|country = England |official_name= Orchard Bay |civil_parish= Ventnor |constituency_westminster= Isle of Wight |coordinates = {{coord|50.5866|-1.2316|type:waterbody_region:GB|display=title,inline|format=dms}} |static_image_name = Orchard Bay, IW, UK.jpg |static_image_caption= Orchard Bay |map_type = Isle of Wight |lieutenancy_england= Isle of Wight |region = South East England |hide_services = yes }}Orchard Bay is a small bay with sand and shingle beach on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the south-west of the Ventnor Botanic Garden and just along the coast west from Steephill Cove. It faces south towards the English Channel, its shoreline is {{convert|220|yd|m}} in length - {{convert|65|yd|m|-1}} of which is beach.[1] The bay can be accessed by a small footpath at the western end of the bay. The beach is dominated by a large seawall and Orchard House just above the high water mark.[2] Orchard bay House was originally built in 1828 as three coastguard cottages in order to prevent smuggling but was in 1840 acquired for use in smuggling. It is currently let as holiday accommodation.[3] SmugglingIn 2002 Operation Eyeful resulted in a large seizure of cocaine and the arrests of Michael Tyrrell, Julie Paterson and Frederick Fillingham and others by officers from HM Customs & Excise. Most of the arrests were made by officers based at HM Customs Shoreham Office, the combined prison sentence of the eight involved is 141 years of prison.[4] {{Quote|text=On 8 March, a drug smuggler was jailed for 26 years for leading an operation to bring a record £90 million consignment of cocaine into Britain by yacht. He and five of his accomplices were caught by 150 Customs officers on the Isle of Wight after the smugglers' landing was hampered by storms at the end of a 3,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic from the Caribbean. They had planned to unload 879 lb of cocaine on a private beach at Orchard Bay house near Ventnor, but the weather and the failure of their outboard motor forced them to deposit their cargo on another beach at Woody Bay, about a mile away. They were trapped and arrested after members of the gang had spent hours carrying large bales of cocaine along a treacherous cliff-top path to their destination. Officials knew about the smuggling because the men had been kept under surveillance by excisemen from the Cowes Customs house, among others. I understand that the smuggler had paid £657,000 for the Orchard Bay property. Customs officers on the island had been tipped off that something big was about to happen, and Operation Eyeful, which was a joint investigation with the National Crime Squad, began. It resulted in the successful apprehension of five smugglers.|author=Andrew Turner speaking as the then MP for the Isle of Wight|title= made the following statement to the House of Commons on 22 July 2002.[5]}}References1. ^{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.5863329,-1.2312942,261m/data=!3m1!1e3|title= Orchard Bay |access-date= 4 September 2018}} {{Crossings navbox2. ^{{cite web| url=https://www.thebeachguide.co.uk/south-west-england/isle-of-wight/orchard-bay.htm| title= Orchard Bay| website = www.thebeachguide.co.uk | accessdate= 4 August 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.christopherscott.co.uk/properties/786 |accessdate=20 April 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927082301/http://www.christopherscott.co.uk/properties/786 |archivedate=27 September 2011 | title= Orchard Bay, PO38 1UN}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2584701.stm| title='Cocaine Queen' jailed for smuggling| date= 17 December 2002| publisher= BBC News}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.wightfarmholidays.co.uk/iow/smuggling-and-piracy-on-the-isle-of-wight/| title=Smuggling and Piracy on the Isle of Wight | website= wightfarmholidays.co.uk |author = Fidelis Morgan}} |structure = Around the Bays |place = Isle of Wight |bridge = Orchard Bay |bridge signs = |upstream text = West |upstream = Mount Bay |upstream signs = |downstream text = East |downstream = Ventnor Bay |downstream signs = }}{{Bays on the Isle of Wight}} 1 : Bays of the Isle of Wight |
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