Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight
by George Brannon
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- Author
- Brannon, George, 1784-1860
- Title
- 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.
- Credits
- E-text prepared by richyfourtytwo, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net/)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Isle of Wight (England) -- Guidebooks
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 16356
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16356
- Release Date
- July 24, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by richyfourtytwo, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/)
- 2.EXPLANATION.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS.
- 5.A SUMMER'S EXCURSION. — USEFUL HINTS TO STRANGERS — Situation, Extent, Climate, &c. — Geology, Agriculture, and Zoology . — Local Biography and History.
- 6.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.
- 7.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,
- 8.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. — BY STEAM-PACKETS. — Land-Conveyances. — List of the Principal Inns. — LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL
- 9.SEATS & COUNTRY-VILLAS — WITH THE NAMES OF — Their Proprietors or Occupiers.
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