Category: Travel Writing

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.

Carisbrooke Castle and Village, 25 Newport and its Environs, 29 East and West Cowes, and their Environs, 34 Objects on the road between Cowes and Ryde, 43 Ryde and its Environs, 45 St. Helen's, Bembridge, Sandown, Brading, &c., 52

Chapters

6. CHAPTER II.

As a stranger's attention is frequently diverted from noticing many interesting features of a scene in the hurried moment of his visit, an index >> is placed at the head of each...

7. CHAPTER III.

>> THE CHINE, _a beautiful woody ravine in the sea-cliffs, is the great object of attraction; inquire the road to the beach, and you will be conducted through the scene back to...

8. CHAPTER IV.

We shall now leave the familiar scenes of cultivation and of village life for a time, to enjoy the charms of unbounded prospect, as we journey for four miles over a succession o...

5. CHAPTER I.

Variety is the characteristic charm of the Isle of Wight; the scenery being in fact a most happy combination of the grand and romantic, the sylvan and marine--throughout a close...

4. CHAPTER IV.--THE SOUTH-WESTERN COAST OF THE ISLAND,

_Distinguished for the most Sublime Scenery._ The Road over the Downs to Freshwater, 89 Freshwater Cliffs, Bay, and Caverns, 90 High-down, Main-bench, and Scratchell's Bay, 93 N...

3. CHAPTER III--THE SOUTH-EASTERN COAST OF THE ISLAND,

_Distinguished for its Romantic Scenery._ Shanklin Chine and Village, 59 Cooke's Castle, and Luccombe Chine, 63 East End, commencement of the Undercliff, 64 Bonchurch, and Ventn...

2. CHAPTER II.--THE THREE PRINCIPAL TOWNS, AND THEIR ENVIRONS.

Carisbrooke Castle and Village, 25 Newport and its Environs, 29 East and West Cowes, and their Environs, 34 Objects on the road between Cowes and Ryde, 43 Ryde and its Environs,...

1. CHAPTER I.--GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.