Devil's Chimney (Isle of Wight)

The Devil's Chimney
The Devil's Chimney on the Isle of Wight
The Devil's Chimney (upper end).
The Devil's Chimney (lower end).

For other landscape features of the same name see Devil's Chimney (disambiguation).

The Devil's Chimney is a scenic rock cleft with steps descending into the Bonchurch Landslips between Bonchurch and Luccombe, Isle of Wight.

Its upper end is at the Smuggler's Haven Tearooms on St Boniface Down,[1] at the southern end of clifftop parkland accessed from the Leeson Road car park on the A3055 road, where there is a Southern Vectis bus route 3 stop.

One of several such paths connecting the clifftop to the Isle of Wight Undercliff, the Devil's Chimney follows a joint through the Upper Greensand crags capping the cliffs above the Landslip.[2] The path continues down through the Landslip as footpath V65C,[3] meeting the coastal path V65A at its foot.

A similar rock cleft, the Chink, is about 200 yards north.

References

  1. ↑ Andrews, R. The Rough Guide to England, Rough Guides UK, 2011.
  2. ↑ Bird, E.C.F., The shaping of the Isle of Wight: with an excursion guide, Ex Libris Press, 1997
  3. ↑ Curtis, P., Walking on the Isle of Wight, Cicerone Press, 2013

Coordinates: 50°36′19.34″N 1°10′51.25″W / 50.6053722°N 1.1809028°W