It was represented by two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.
The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, and from the 1832 general election its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight.
The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire.
Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth.
At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.