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.
George Brannon
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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.
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EXPLANATION.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS.
CHAPTER I.
THE PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THE ISLAND AS THE OBJECT OF
A SUMMER'S EXCURSION.
USEFUL HINTS TO STRANGERS
Situation, Extent, Climate, &c.
Geology, Agriculture, and Zoology.
Local Biography and History.
CHAPTER II.
Carisbrooke, Newport, Cowes, and Ryde.
CARISBROOKE CASTLE.
THE VILLAGE OF CARISBROOKE
NEWPORT.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The Environs of Newport.
WEST COWES.
EAST COWES.
The Principal Seats near East Cowes.
"EAST COWES PARK"
THE HARBOUR,
The Road from East Cowes to Ryde.
WOOTTON-BRIDGE.
QUARR ABBEY,
The other Religious Structures
RYDE.
PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS.
Aquatic Amusements, &c. at Ryde.
THE ENVIRONS OF RYDE
BRADING HAVEN
BEMBRIDGE.
BRADING
Objects between Brading and Newport.
CHAPTER III. THE ROMANTIC SCENERY
OF THE ISLAND, EXHIBITED ALONG THE SOUTH-EASTERN COAST, FROM SHANKLIN TO BLACKGANG CHINE.
SHANKLIN.
THE CHINE.
LUCCOMBE CHINE
THE UNDERCLIFF,
EAST END.
BONCHURCH.
VENTNOR.
APPULDURCOMBE.
GODSHILL,
STEEPHILL,
ST. LAWRENCE.
THE ROAD FROM ST. LAWRENCE TO NITON.
ST. CATHARINE'S LIGHT-HOUSE.
BLACKGANG CHINE,
St. CATHARINE's HILL
CHALE CHURCH
WRECKS ON THE SOUTHERN COAST.
THE ROAD TO FRESHWATER-GATE.
SHORWELL,
CHAPTER IV.
THE WESTERN QUARTER OF THE ISLAND, DISTINGUISHED FOR ITS
SUBLIME SCENERY.
The Road over the Downs from Brooke to Freshwater-gate.
THE FRESHWATER CLIFFS.
FRESHWATER-GATE,
THE GRAND ARCH;
NEEDLE ROCKS,
ALUM BAY.
THE ROADS TO YARMOUTH, NEWPORT, &c.
YARMOUTH,
The Road by Calbourne and Carisbrooke.
LANDMARKS AND OTHER CONSPICUOUS OBJECTS
TOURS OF THE ISLAND.
CONTINUED TOUR FROM RYDE.
Tour from Ryde, in which Parties sleep but one Night in the Country.
GENERAL TOUR FROM COWES.
TOURS FROM NEWPORT.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE ISLAND
The Passage and Conveyance.
Land-Conveyances.
List of the Principal Inns.
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL
SEATS & COUNTRY-VILLAS
WITH THE NAMES OF
Their Proprietors or Occupiers.
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