Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight / The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.

by George Brannon

NORRIS CASTLE

---

CONTENTS.

• [CHAPTER I.]—GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
  • Its Peculiar Advantages for a Summer's Excursion
  • Climate, Situation, and Extent
  • Geology, Agriculture, and Zoology
  • Eminent Natives, and Outline of the Local History
• [CHAPTER II.]—THE THREE PRINCIPAL TOWNS, AND THEIR ENVIRONS.
  • Carisbrooke Castle and Village
  • Newport and its Environs
  • East and West Cowes, and their Environs
  • Objects on the road between Cowes and Ryde
  • Ryde and its Environs
  • St. Helen's, Bembridge, Sandown, Brading, &c.
• [CHAPTER III.]—THE SOUTH-EASTERN COAST OF THE ISLAND,
  • Distinguished for its Romantic Scenery.
  • Shanklin Chine and Village
  • Cooke's Castle, and Luccombe Chine
  • East End, commencement of the Undercliff
  • Bonchurch, and Ventnor
  • Appuldurcombe and Godshill
  • Steephill, and St. Lawrence
  • The Undercliff, between St. Lawrence and Niton
  • The New Light-house, and the Sandrock Spring
  • Blackgang Chine, and St. Catharine's Hill
  • Wrecks on the Southern Coast
  • Chale, Gatcombe, Shorwell, Brixton, &c.
• [CHAPTER IV.]—THE SOUTH-WESTERN COAST OF THE ISLAND,
  • Distinguished for the most Sublime Scenery.
  • The Road over the Downs to Freshwater
  • Freshwater Cliffs, Bay, and Caverns
  • High-down, Main-bench, and Scratchell's Bay
  • Needle Rocks, Alum Bay, Light-house, &c.
  • Freshwater Village, Yarmouth, Calbourne, &c.
• • [Conspicuous Objects on the Hills]
  • [Tours through, and Voyage round the Island]
  • [Lists of the Inns and Seats. Passage and Conveyance, &c.]

---

LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS.

• [I.]—Norris Castle
• [II.]—Pulpit Rock
• [III.]—Carisbrooke Castle
• [IV.]—West Cowes
• [V.]—Osbourne
• [VI.]—Town and Pier of Ryde
• [VII.]—View from Bembridge Down
• [VIII.]—Shanklin
• [IX.]—Shanklin Church
• [X.]—Cooke's Castle
• [XI.]—The ancient Parish-church of Bonchurch
• [XII.]—Ventnor
• [XIII.]—Steephill
• [XIV.]—St. Lawrence Church
• [XV.]—St. Lawrence Well
• [XVI.]—The Undercliff near Mount Cleeves.
• [XVII.]—The new Light-house near Niton
• [XVIII.]—Blackgang Chine
• [XIX.]—Freshwater Bay
• [XX.]—Watcombe Bay
• [XXI.]—Scratchell's Bay and the Needle Rocks
• [XXII.]—Map of the Isle of Wight

---

CHAPTER I.

THE PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THE ISLAND AS THE OBJECT OF