St Boniface and the Devil’s Chimney BLUE ROUTE BLUE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #4 FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS WHO DON’T MIND A BIT OF A CHALLENGE START/FINISH: Landslip Car Park, Bonchurch TIME: 2 Hours DISTANCE: 3 miles A B 65 I 123 65a D E 65c 109 C H 122 Portsmouth To Southampton Southsea on - Cowes on - East Cowes assenger Ferry P / assenger Ferry P Southampt Vehicle Southampt THE EGYPT POINT OLD CASTLE POINT SOLENT GURNARD BAY Cowes Gurnard East Cowes Lymington B 3 3 2 5 OSBORNE BAY Portsmouth - Ryde Passenger Hovercraft Portsmouth - Fishbourne Vehicle/Passenger Ferry Portsmouth - Ryde Rew Street Passenger Ferry THORNESS BAY RIVER MEDINA RYDE PIER HEAD HERITAGE COAST Whippingham RYDE OpenStreetMap © Mapbox, © Map: Vehicle/PassengerLymington Ferry - Yarmouth Northwood ESPLANADE NEWTOWN A 3 0 2 1 PUCKPOOL BAY POINT Marks WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne A 3 0 2 0 Corner DODNOR A 3 0 5 4 CREEK & Ryde DICKSONS Quarr Hill Binstead RYDE COPSE Wootton ST JOHN’S ROAD Spring Vale Bridge C L A M E R K I N HERSEY RESERVE, Seaview LAKE WOOTTON SEAVIEW DUVER HERITAGE COAST Porcheld FIRESTONE SEAGROVE BAY Wootton COPSE Hamstead PARKHURST Common FOREST NEWTOWN RIVER Newtown Parkhurst Nettlestone P SMALLBROOK 0 4 3 3 B P R I O R Y B AY NINGWOOD JUNCTION SCONCE BRIDDLESFORD Havenstreet COMMON P COPSES POINT SWANPOND NODE’S POINT BOULDNOR Cranmore Newtown deserted HAVENSTREET COPSE P COPSE Medieval village P P A 3 0 5 4 Norton Bouldnor Ashey P A 3 0 5 5 St Helens Cli End Yarmouth Shaleet BEMBRIDGE Ningwood Newport POINT ASHEY B 3 3 3 0 A 3 0 5 4Norton MILL COPSE Thorley Thorley Street Carisbrooke SHIDE Green CHALK PIT NUNWELL TRAIL B 3 3 9 0 COLWELL BAY WAY FRESHWATER Bembridge B 3 4 0 1 R I V E R YA R EAGLEHEAD AND BRADING GOLDEN P P A S H E Y BLOODSTONE COPSE HILL Wellow Shide 126 MARSHES B 3 4 0 1 131 P COUNTRY Downend D O W N R I V E R YA R PARK Five Houses P M E R S L E Y D O W N Brading Newbridge BRADING FORELAND S T G E O R G E ’ S Michael Morey’s The Devil’s Hump KNIGHTON DOWN B 3 3 9 5 A 3 0 5 5 138 D O W N Punchbowl TOTLAND BAY ARRETON DOWN BRADING Freshwater 105 DOWN P Brading Down HAMSTEAD TRAIL 109 BEMBRIDGE TRAIL Bowcombe Field System Calbourne 39 Totland AFTON TENNYSON TRAIL Arreton MARSHES Blackwater Morton Bembridge HATHERWOOD P P Fort 105 B 3 3 9 9 B E M B R I D G E Culver WHITECLIFF BAY Middleton B 3 4 0 1 Adgestone POINT Battery D O W N 100 Headon Afton 79 East Afton N E W B A R N 160 Langbridge Warren Down Barrows 151 Neolithic D O W N Alverstone B 3 3 2 2 Mortuary Freshwater Bay 164 Yaverland P Tennyson P E A S T A F T O N B R O O K 3 2 3 3 B Harborough Enclosure Newchurch Monument Memorial 147 D O W N Chessell Horringford MARTIN’S P D O W N 165 BRIGHSTONE P A L U M B AY FOREST WOOD THE P W E S T H I G H D O W N C O M P T O N CULVER ‘Five Barrows’ Gatcombe Merstone ALVERSTONE MEAD, NEEDLES TENNYSON TRAIL D O W N 213 CLIFF FRESHWATER BAY Brook Down Harboro’ Barrow YOUNGWOODS COPSE B 3 3 9 5 P Mottistone Down AND SANDOWN MEADOWS P B R I G H S T O N E 65 152 SANDOWN D O W N W E S T O V E R D O W N COMPTON BAY A 3 0 5 6 Winford 175 Rookley SCRATCHELL’S The Longstone 165 R O W B O R O U G H Chillerton BAY 167 Hulverstone D O W N Hill Fort Sandown P 106 HERITAGE COAST Brook LAKE HANOVER POINT P Mottistone C H I L L E R T O N Chillerton R I V E R YA R Lake D O W N Apse Heath P WORSLEY TRAIL B R O O K B AY Moortown P A 3 0 2 0 Shorwell AMERICA SANDOWN WOOD BAY Brighstone P P P Limerstone B 3 3 9 9 Sandford P SHANKLIN Whiteley Bank Yaord RIVER MEDINA Godshill STENBURY TRAIL 94 Thorncross Shanklin 85 Upper Hyde SHEPHERDS TRAIL SIBDEN HILL & H E R IT A G E C O A S T Worsley Monument BATTS COPSE A 3 0 5 5 70 S T M A R T I N ’ S Roud D O W N 209 235 154 S T E N B U R Y Luccombe BRIGHSTONE S H A N K L I N P D O W N Wroxall BAY Chale Green D O W N P P 145 Ather eld Green 210 P LUCCOMBE BAY Hoy’s 7 2 3 3 B Luccombe Down 9B3 B L E A K 199 Monument Southford 233 Barrow ATHERFIELD POINT D O W N 240 NANSEN S T B O N I FA C E HILL Bonchurch W E E K D O W N S T C AT H E R I N E ’ S D O W N G P D O W N P Whitwell REW DOWN St. Catherine’s Kingates Chale Oratory Ventnor P M O N K S B AY C H A L E B AY ST LAWRENCE 237 UNDERCLIFF Niton Blackgang P PELHAM WOODS VENTNOR BAY St Lawrence P F A 3 0 5 5 P R O C K E N E N D BINNEL ENGLISH BAY REETH BAY 1 ST CATHERINE’S POINT CHANNEL HERITAGE COAST DIRECTIONS: A START: Starting from Bonchurch Landslip Car Park. Head east E If, however, at this point you have a thirst for more adventure and on Foot Path 65 and climb down the very steep steps locally known as want to get your heart pumping, continue by crossing the main road the Chink. This will bring you on to a narrow foot path, which leads you and joining Foot Path 109 towards Ventnor. on many small twists and turns past mini caves. This area is thought to F This path skirts the base of St Boniface Down and will ultimately be enchanted, so keep an eye out for fairies and be sure to stop at the bring you onto Mitchell Avenue in Ventnor. Walk along Mitchell Avenue Wishing Seat and dream of your heart’s desire. in a westerly direction for a few hundred metres until you reach Old B Foot Path 65 will join the Coastal Path, take a right hand turn and Station Road Industrial Estate. follow the Coastal Path for a ¼ mile. G Walk into Old Station Road and look for an almost secret Foot Path C When you meet a junction take a right turn on to Foot Path 65c and sign (Foot Path 1) which will lead you to the top of St Boniface Down. this will take you to the Devil’s Chimney. The Devil’s Chimney is a yaw H Continue up to the top of St Boniface Down, past Ventnor Radar Station between Green Sandstone Blocks and takes you up some very steep and (Foot Path 122) and all the way to Nansen Hill Nature Reserve (Foot Path rickety steps to the Smugglers Haven Café. 123). D If you have had enough of your adventure, it is a short walk past the I As you descend from Nansen Hill you will spot the Car Park where you toilet block and the café to the start point Car Park. started. FINISH Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions..