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Monday, 17 July 2023

Ventnor to Shanklin - over Boniface Down [Isle of Wight weekend]


Ventnor to Shanklin

Length: 4 miles

Toughness: 6 out of 10

Start: walk starts at Ventnor Boots Bus Stop at 10 am

For GPS and further information see here: https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/lake-to-shanklin/index.html

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Island Line trains Back to Ryde:  xx.14 and xx.57 mins

The walk will be back over Boniface Down, Bonchurch Down, Luccombe Down, Shanklin Down and into Shanklin and the railway station.

Alternatively, you can do the Friday walk along the landslip in reverse to get back to Shanklin.

There is a tea room at the railway station for refreshments.  Many other  refreshment places in Shanklin itself for cream teas, fish and chips and lunch.

 

1 comment:

Walker said...

N=5 survivors gathered at the by now familiar bus stop by Boots in Ventnor for this last outing of the weekend. We were at last rewarded with w=warm-sun-and-fairly-light-breezes. We had a grand climb up scenic St Boniface Down and an easy walk along the top of Luccombe and Shanklin Downs. Some butterfly spotting on the descent of the latter, and then a stretch down steep steps that even the walk author had forgotten about.

Arriving at Shanklin station via the old railway line, we said goodbye to one walker who was heading back to London on the 13.14 train. The remaining four went down to the seafront, where we were greeted by beautiful calm blue sea and plenty of people on the beach. We found a quiet spot by the Fisherman’s Cottage pub and had a very pleasant high tide swim. We then had lunch on the terrace of the pub.

Two left for London after this and two of us staying an extra night walked back through the landslip to Ventnor, thus becoming the first two people to do this entire walk in one day, albeit having done the afternoon first and then the morning. (Even the walk author had never actually done this previously, having cobbled the walk together from two routes he had done separately.) Perhaps it should be renamed Ventnor Circular via Shanklin. It certainly works well in this form.

Thanks to Branchline for a most successful weekend, and we hope the shade of Sylvia was smiling down on us.