Panorama over Niton. Niton village is split in half by a break in the inner cliff, through which passes the main road. Upper Niton lies in a hollow and is set around a crossroads. The lower part of the village, below the inner cliff on Reeth Bay, is known as Niton Undercliff, and was a small fishing hamlet up until the 19th Century.
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Entrance to the church The Church of St John the Baptist, Niton is a Church of England parish church in Niton, Isle of Wight.
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Meanwhile, in 1987, he co-founded and led research and development at Niton Corporation, which developed, manufactured and marketed test kits and instruments to measure radon gas in buildings and toxic elements, such as lead.Thomson, Elizabeth A. "Lead detector wins R&D; award", MIT News, December 13, 1995, accessed July 12, 2016 There he also developed handheld devices that use X-ray fluorescence to determine the composition of metal alloys and to detect other materials. In 1998, he left MIT to work full-time directing the R&D; group at Niton, and in 2005, he and his family sold Niton."Thermo Electron buys Niton for $40.5M", Boston Business Journal, March 30, 2005, accessed July 7, 2016; and "Thermo Scientific NITON® XRF Analyzers", Thermo Scientific, 2007, accessed July 7, 2016 His sister Ethel was the President and CEO of Niton.
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The Pierres du Niton in Geneva harbor The Pierres du Niton (French for Neptune's Stones) are two unusual rocks which are visible from Quai Gustave- Ador in the harbor of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. They are remnants from the last ice age, left by the Rhone glacier. The Repère Pierre du Niton is the name of the rock which is bigger and further from the shore. The word Niton is derived from the ancient water god Neptune, who was revered by the Gauls who settled at the lake, as old inscriptions in Geneva and Lausanne indicate.
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The River Yar trail runs through the village with the milestone outside the village Pub. In addition to this, bridleways are maintained, running to nearby villages Wroxall and Niton. Future plans could see a pedestrian link from Whitwell to Niton along the main road.
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Introduction , Ventnor Botanic Garden website (retrieved 9 July 2013) Although inhabited, the Undercliff is an area prone to landslips and subsidence, with accompanying loss of property over time. Settlements along the Undercliff, from west to east, are: lower Niton (also called Niton Undercliff), Puckaster, St Lawrence, Steephill, the town of Ventnor, and Bonchurch.
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Niton Junction is a hamlet in west-central Alberta, Canada, within Yellowhead County. It is located on the Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16) approximately east of Edson and west of Edmonton. It is east of the Yellowhead Highway's junction with Highway 32 and west of Chip Lake. Niton Junction has an elevation of .
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The Undercliff at Niton includes the most southerly point of the Isle of Wight, St. Catherine's Point and St. Catherine's Lighthouse. That is also where the Navtex transmitting station is located. The source of the Eastern Yar is in the parish, just north of the village. Niton together with Whitwell is a civil parish.
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"I Remember, I Remember." Memoirs of two previous 'Undercliff ' inhabitants, Alan Champion, Ventnor: 1989. Also, on 1 July 1675 King Charles II was forced ashore in Puckaster Cove in bad weather and heavy seas,The Isle of Wight Timeline of History, Isle of Wight History Centre Niton, Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson (c)2003, Accessed October 24, 2007 from UK and Ireland Genealogy website. as recorded in the Niton Church Register: Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hopsonn as an orphan lived in Niton.
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Chale is part of the electoral ward called Chale, Niton and Whitwell. At the 2011 Census the population of this ward was 2,721.
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Close to Niton is a natural seaport (Puckaster Cove), which is believed to have been used by Greek and Phoenician Bronze Age Britain traders.
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Unlike neighbouring Godshill, the station was closer to the community it was meant to serve. It also served the nearby villages of Niton and Chale.
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Statistics Canada recognizes Niton Junction as a designated place. The hamlet is located in census division No. 14 and in the federal riding of Yellowhead.
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Whitwell lies within the parliamentary constituency of the Isle of Wight with the seat held by Conservative member Bob Seely, and within the same area of the Isle of Wight Council. Together with Niton, the village forms a civil parish, chaired by Councillor Tim Addison. The Parish Council has ten members, six for the Niton ward and four for the Whitwell ward, and meets ten times annually.
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The Undercliff is accessed by the A3055 road running its length from Niton to Bonchurch. West of Ventnor, the Southern Vectis 3 bus follows the section called Undercliff Drive as far as St Lawrence; the Southern Vectis 6 runs north-east from Ventnor to Bonchurch and beyond. The road's low-level continuation between Niton and Blackgang was broken by landslips in the 20th century. The road between St Lawrence and Niton collapsed in two places at the westerly edge of St Lawrence on 17 February 2014 as a result of land movement following a period of prolonged rainfall amidst ongoing engineering works to stabilize the A3055 and prolong its use.
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A few steep roads (probably ancient routes, locally termed "shutes") connect the clifftop to the lower Undercliff level: Niton Shute, St Lawrence Shute, and Bonchurch Shute. The Undercliff was formerly served by railway stations at Ventnor (Ventnor railway station and Ventnor West) and St Lawrence. The area can be visited on foot by the Ventnor- Blackgang section of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path, and there are a number of scenic walks along and below the cliffs backing the Undercliff. These include Gore Cliff east of Niton, the 'Cripple Path' and 'St Rhadegund's Path' that climb the inner cliff at Niton and St Lawrence, the Devil's Chimney, and the Bonchurch Landslips.
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One of six red iron water pumps in the village. Whitwell is a small village located on the south of the Isle of Wight, approximately 5 kilometres north- west of Ventnor, the village's nearest town. At the 2011 Census the appropriate civil parish was Niton and Whitwell. In addition to this, it is about five minutes away from its neighbouring small villages of Godshill and Niton, the latter of which, Whitwell forms a civil parish.
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Puckaster is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, England. Puckaster is on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight, south of Niton , between St. Catherine's Point and Binnel.
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A map of Whitwell and the surrounding area Whitwell is located in the south of the Isle of Wight, slightly to the south of Godshill, and extends to the southern end. The nearest town is Ventnor, about 5 kilometres South of the village. Niton is the nearest village about away, which together, Whitwell and Niton form a civil parish. Also close to the village, is Nettlecombe, the site of a lost medieval village located slightly to the north east.
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The beach is predominantly sand and pebbles. The seabed is a mixture of rocks and mud. The bay is best accessed from the road from Niton that leads down to the bay.
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In 1878, a 1:1.000.000 map was published, and the next year, the height of the Pierre du Niton was measured to be 376.86 metres. In 1880, Herman Siegfried was succeeded by Jules Dumur.
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This required two more pumping stations – the Wolf Pump Station, near Niton Junction, Alberta, and the Chappel Pump Station, near Pyramid Creek Falls Provincial Park, British Columbia. In 2008, the project was completed, increasing capacity by , (from ).
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As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Niton Junction recorded a population of 38 living in 15 of its 15 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 26. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. In the 2011 Census, Niton Junction had a population of 26 living in 11 of its 11 total dwellings, a -78.2% change from its 2006 population of 119. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2011.
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Aemene punctatissima is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Gustave Arthur Poujade in 1886. It is found in China (Ichang, Chan-yang, Wa- shan, Omeishan, Chia-ting-fu, Wa-ssu-kow, Cheton and Niton).
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The Pierres du Niton in Geneva harbour Metres above the Sea (German: Meter über Meer (m ü. M.)) is the vertical datum used in Switzerland. Both the system and the term are also used in the Principality of Liechtenstein.
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Edward Edwards (1812–1886) was a British librarian, library historian, and biographer. He was an important figure in the establishment of free libraries in the United Kingdom. He died and is buried in Niton on the Isle of Wight.
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He worked on the physical properties of niton, resigning his post in 1914. The following year he started as a temporary science master at Eton. Later Whytlaw-Gray was appointed a civilian chemical adviser to the Chemical Warfare Committee.
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Sir Willoughby Gordon and his Daughter Julia, Cooking on a Griddle at Puckaster, near Niton, Isle of Wight 1822, David Wilkie, 1922. Painters L. J. Wood and Richard Henry Nibbs (1816–1893) have also produced notable paintings of Puckaster.
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There is currently no vehicular access between St Lawrence and Niton along the former road. Vehicular traffic must go via Whitwell. Pedestrian and cycle access was restored by late 2016. Bus routes are diverted and no longer serve St Lawrence.
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After retiring in 1947, de Sélincourt settled at Niton on the Isle of Wight, and devoted himself to writing. He died there in December 1962, shortly after the publication of one of his most successful books, The World of Herodotus.
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In 1878, a 1:1.000.000 map is published, and the next year, the height of the Pierre du Niton is measured to be 376.86 metre. In 1880, Herman Siegfried is succeeded by Jules Dumur. In 1895, the Topographical surveys for the Siegfriedkarten are finished.
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At 05:47 on 6 November the coast radio station at Niton received a Mayday call from Pool Fisher. Within minutes Niton passed the information to the coastguard, which immediately alerted the Yarmouth and Bembridge lifeboats and scrambled SAR helicopters from Lee-on-Solent, and later from Portland and Culdrose. The search and rescue operation was carried out, in severe weather conditions, by three Royal Navy warships, including , six merchant vessels and two lifeboats, assisted by four helicopters. The only two survivors from Pool Fisher, deckhands Donald Crane and Mark Fook, were both off-watch and asleep below when they were roused by the bosun and ordered on deck.
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This part of Niton then flourished in Victorian times due to the popularity of Ventnor as a health resort, and many mansions and holiday cottages were built there. Mount Cleves House was originally constructed in the late 1700s, and substantially remodelled in the early 1800s. Its residents included a Mr Kirkpatrick who owned the Isle of Wight Bank at the time and the owner of the Mortimer Foundry in Newport. The road along the Undercliff continues east towards Ventnor, but a major landslip in February 2014 has closed it to vehicular traffic between Niton and Ventnor, although it remains open for walkers and riders (as at November 2016).
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Butze, Chauvin, Dunn, Edgerton, Greenshields, Wainwright, Fabyan, Hawkins, Irma, Jarrow, Kinsella, Meighen, Nestor, Poe, Ryley, Shonts, Tofield, Uncas, Ardrossan, Bremner, Clover Bar, Edmonton, Fallis, Gainford, Hargwen, Imrie, Junkins, Keston, Leaman, Mackay, Niton, Otley, Peers, Rosevear, Thornton, Wolf Creek, Yates, Ansell, Bickerdike, Dalehurst, Entrance, Fitzhugh (now Jasper), Elnora, Delburne, Huxley, Trochu.
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Binnel Bay is a bay on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies between the villages of St. Lawrence and Niton. It faces south towards the English Channel, and is just under in length. It stretches from Binnel Point in the east to Puckaster Cove in the west.
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"Niton (The Reason)" is a single by Swedish DJ and producer, Eric Prydz. It was released by digital download on 6 February 2011 on Ministry of Sound. The music video was uploaded to YouTube on 9 December 2010. On 13 February 2011 the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 45.
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He is also a former joint managing director of Saatchi & Saatchi UK, founder and director of Sharkey Associates Ltd. and a trustee and honorary treasurer of the Hansard Society. He was created a Life Peer as Baron Sharkey, of Niton Undercliff in the County of the Isle of Wight on 20 December 2010.
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Little Atherfield is a small settlement on the Isle of Wight. It is near the coast in the Back of the Wight. The Isle of Wight is situated off the south coast of England. According to the Post Office the 2011 Census population of the village was listed in the civil parish of Niton and Whitwell.
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J-Son #"Welcome to St. Tropez (DJ Antoine vs Mad Mark Clean Remix)" - DJ Antoine vs. Timati feat. Kalenna #"You Just Don't Love Me (Extended Mix)" - David Morales & Jonathan Mendelsohn #"Sun & Moon (Club Mix)" - Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford #"Feel It (Original Extended Mix)" - Ferry Corsten #"Niton (The Reason) (Extended)" - Eric Prydz #"Boy (Hardwell Remix)" - Adrian Lux feat.
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St Catherine's Lighthouse at St Catherine's Point The beach directly below the lighthouse. Erosion threatens the southern wall of the lighthouse compound (2017). St Catherine's Point is the southernmost point on the Isle of Wight. It is close to the village of Niton and the point where the Back of the Wight changes to the Undercliff of Ventnor.
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Newport Road running through Bierley. Bierley is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, UK. Bierley is in the south of the Isle of Wight, north of Niton and 0.7 miles to the west of Whitwell. Bierley is at the corner of Kingates Lane and Newport Road. Bierley was the site of brickmaking operations in the past.
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In the 1950s she married and started a family, while beginning to write books and articles and to teach interior and construction design. In the 1980s, she became a project, construction and building manager and then was President, Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of Niton Corporation, an environmental science company. She has been Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society since 2001.
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18 Romm was a project, construction and building manager for Hartz Mountain Industries in New York City from 1984 to 1988. She then was President, Chief Executive Officer and co-owner, with her brother Lee, of Niton Corporation, in Bedford, Massachusetts, from 1988 to 2005, which designed and built lead and radon detectors, portable X-ray analyzers and other environmental science equipment.Belludi, Nagesh.
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Nevertheless, the periodic movement has destroyed buildings over the years, led to cracking of local roads, and disrupted utilities. In 2011 a vent opened at the former bus stop in Ocean View Road. A nearby Site of Special Scientific Interest is known as the Landslip. In 2014, after storms and heavy rain, a landslip caused the road between Ventnor and Niton to collapse.
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Yafford Yafford Mill (now a private residence) Yafford is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight.yaffordmillbarn.westisleofwight.co.uk It is located southwest from Newport in an area known as the Back of the Wight between Brighstone and Niton. It is in the civil parish of Shorwell. It has a non-operational water mill, which was working until 1970 and is now a listed building.
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As the height of the Pierres du Niton had been inaccurately measured in 1845 as being 376.86 meters, height information relating to this old horizon (for example in the Siegfried Map and the Dufour Map, both of them widely used) is 3.26 m higher than today's official values. At the border between Switzerland and Austria, the Swiss heights are 6 to 75 mm higher than the Austrian heights above the Adriatic.Map with height differences published by the Austrian Federal Office for Metrology and Survey As gravitational potential cannot be neglected for applications with high accuracy requirements, the Swiss national height network 1995 (LHN95) created a new orthometric height vertical reference point, fixed to the geoid. The height of the new reference point, Zimmerwald Observatory, was chosen so that the Pierres du Niton reference point maintained its then current level.
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Southern Vectis run buses on route 3 and 6 from Ventnor to destinations including Newport, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin and Niton. Additionally Island Minibus service run the local number 31 route which connects Ventnor to Bonchurch Village, the Botanic Garden and esplanade. Previously operated by Wightbus, the link to the esplanade was restored in 2011 after many years, despite suggestions that this would be impractical.
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The hall was reconstructed by Thomas Bawis in the mid-18th century. John Barwis (1775-1818), who was also Rector of Niton in the Isle of Wight, was one of its prominent owners, and his son William Barwis, was still in possession of Langrigg manor in 1860. In 1876, its ownership changed to Joseph Bowerbank of Cockermouth. The hall is currently the base for a large free range egg production enterprise.
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There is a Bronze Age barrow near the Oratory, which was excavated in the 1920s. A replacement lighthouse was begun in 1785 but was never completed because the Down is prone to dense fog. Locally the surviving foundations are known as the "salt cellar". A new lighthouse was built after the wreck of the Clarendon in 1837 to the west of Niton at the foot of the Undercliff.
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Reeth Bay is a small curved bay on the southernmost tip of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the south of the village of Niton with a shoreline. It faces south out into the English Channel and lies to the east of St. Catherine's Point lighthouse. It is at the centre of a small hamlet called Castlehaven where there is a concrete ramp for launching small craft.
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St Lawrence, looking down from the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Undercliff on the Isle of Wight skirts the southern edge of the island from Niton to Bonchurch. A favourable climate here has resulted in a semi-tropical environment, covered by lush vegetation. The microclimate of warm sunshine, moist air and few winter chills was recognised by leading physicians in Victorian times as a beneficial environment for sufferers of respiratory diseases.
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Grant Jones was born on May 28, 1878 in Cowes, Isle of Wight.1891 Isle of Wight census record He was the eldest son of Frederick Topham Jones who had been an actor and Elizabeth Grant Jones (née Fitzgerald). Frederick was the owner of the Royal Sandrock Hotel near Niton on the Isle of Wight, a fashionable resort with its own spring. His father was also rector on the Isle of Wight.
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The Eastern Yar, from its source at Niton to the south of the island, runs through the village en route to the Solent. St Helens' built environment is set around large village greens, which are often claimed to make up the second largest green in England. The greens are split up in some areas to allow for roads, with housing and other development to the north and south sides of the greens.
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Niton is a village on the Isle of Wight, west of Ventnor, with a population of 1142. It has one pub, several churches, a pottery workshop/shop, a pharmacy , a busy volunteer run library, a medical centre and three local shops including a post office. The post office includes a café that serves as a local meeting place. The village also offers a primary school with a co-located pre-school and nursery.
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Griggs Farm, Knighton Gateposts of Knighton Gorges Manor Knighton is a hamlet near to Newchurch on the Isle of Wight. The name is often pronounced as Kay- nighton to avoid confusion with the larger, homophonic village of Niton, near Ventnor. Knighton is situated under Knighton Down and has historically always been a part of the parish of nearby Newchurch. Knighton consists of little more than a collection of farm houses, most now turned to residential use.
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Of the agricultural land, 0.3% is used for growing crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.2% is composed of lakes and 2.9% is rivers and streams. Confluence of the Rhône and the Arve The altitude of Geneva is and corresponds to the altitude of the largest of the Pierres du Niton, two large rocks emerging from the lake which date from the last ice age. This rock was chosen by General Guillaume Henri Dufour as the reference point for surveying in Switzerland.
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In Switzerland, levelled heights from the Swiss national levelling network 1902 (LN 02) are used as official heights without compensation for gravity. The reference point for the Swiss national height network is the Pierres du Niton (French: Neptune's Stones), a pair of unusual rocks in the harbour of Lake Geneva. That height is defined from the average height of the Pegel Marseille, the reference point for height data in France, and rounded to 373.6 m. The height was only measured accurately in 1902.
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Puckaster, Isle of Wight, Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Mrs. W. Bartlett and W. Willis made a well known etching of Puckaster Cove that was published in "Barber's Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight" in 1845.Puckaster Cove 1845, Isle of Wight , Bluegreen Pictures website . The Tate Collection includes a drawing by artist Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) titled, "Sir Willoughby Gordon and his Daughter Julia, Cooking on a Griddle at Puckaster, near Niton, Isle of Wight 1822".
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Blackgang is a village on the south-western coast of the Isle of Wight. It is best known as the location of the Blackgang Chine amusement park which sits to the south of St Catherine's Down. Blackgang forms the west end of the Ventnor Undercliff region, which extends for 12 kilometres from Blackgang to Luccombe, also encompassing the town of Ventnor and the villages of Bonchurch, St Lawrence, and Niton. It also marks the edge of the Back of the Wight.
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The Baptist churches at Cowes, Niton, Ryde, Sandown, Ventnor and Wellow, Castlehold Baptist Church in Newport and Colwell Baptist Church at Freshwater are part of the Southern Counties Baptist Association. The Isle of Wight Methodist Circuit administers the island's Methodist churches. As of 2016 there were 24 congregations on the island, although not all have their own church: Ventnor's Methodists worship in a church hall and Yarmouth's congregation shares the Anglican church. The circuit is one of 14 in the District of Southampton.
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"Ethel Romm on Building Consensus", RightAttitudes.com, April 1, 2007, accessed July 12, 2016; and "Thermo Electron buys Niton for $40.5M", Boston Business Journal, March 30, 2005, accessed July 7, 2016 She was Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society of the New York Academy of Sciences from 2001 to 2016."#IAmNYAS: Ethel Romm", The New York Academy of Sciences, October 24, 2016 She was also a member of the Roosevelt Island Resident Association Common Council. In 2016, Romm was honored by Workmen's Circle at its annual winter benefit.
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The first lighthouse was established on St Catherine's Down in 1323 on the orders of the Pope, after a ship ran aground nearby and its cargo was either lost or plundered. Once part of St Catherine's Oratory, its octagonal stone tower can still be seen today on the hill to the west of Niton. It is known locally as the "Pepperpot". Nearby there are the footings of a replacement lighthouse begun in 1785, but this was never completed because the hill is prone to dense fog.
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For other locations of the same name, see The Undercliff. The Undercliff, Isle of Wight, England is a tract of semi-rural land, around long by wide, skirting the southern coast of the island from Niton to Bonchurch. Named after its position below the escarpment that backs this coastal section, its undulating terrain comprises a mix of rough pasture, secondary woodland, parkland, grounds of large isolated houses, and suburban development. Its sheltered south-facing location gives rise to a microclimate considerably warmer than elsewhere on the island.
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Burton has collaborated on Super8 & Tab's debut album, a trance group within the Anjunabeats label, and he is on four of the songs on the 2010 album Empire. He performed vocals in two songs on Metrik's "The Departure" EP. In 2011, he did the vocals for Eric Prydz's single "Niton (The Reason)". In October 2014, Burton did two more songs with Super8 & Tab for their album Unified, released on Anjunabeats. In November 2017, Burton provided vocals on Gabriel & Dresden's single "Waiting for Winter", also released on Anjunabeats.
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Dorn verified Rutherford's observation that a radioactive material was emitted by thorium, and discovered that a similar emission arose from the element radium. Additional work by Rutherford and Soddy showed that the same emission came from both thorium and radium, that it was a gas, and that it was actually a new element. Dorn called the radioactive gaseous product from radium simply "emanation", but in 1904 Rutherford introduced the name "radium emanation" for the same material. Ramsay later suggested "niton", from the Latin word "nitens" meaning "shining".
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It is linked to other parts of the Island by Wightbus bus route 16, serving Ventnor and Shanklin and intermediate villages. This service was withdrawn along with all other wight bus services in 2011. The village was served by a two-hourly service by Southern vectis' route 6 between Ventnor and Newport until a landslip between St Lawrence and Niton in 2014. Since February 2014 Southern Vectis route 6 terminates at Ventnor Botanic Gardens with a more limited morning service between St Lawrence village and Ventnor.
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Told as a ballad in Ballads of the Isle of Wight, Downer lived in Hillway near Bembridge, a thatched cottage now known as Witches Hatch. The cottage dates back to 1558. Sources differ in her heritage, she was either the illegitimate daughter of a local vicar, the Reverend Barwis of Niton, who left a small amount of money to subsist on when he died, or from a wealthy family who made their fortune from smuggling. Downer herself would entice customs men in order to get free alcohol.
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In the early 20th century, the element radon was known by several different names. Chemist William Ramsay, who extensively studied the element's chemical properties, suggested the name niton, and Rutherford originally suggested emanation. At that time, radon only referred to the isotope 222Rn, whereas the names actinon and thoron denoted 219Rn and 220Rn, respectively. In 1957, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) promoted the name radon to refer to the element rather than just 222Rn; this was done under a new rule concerning isotope naming conventions.
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Lee Grodzins (born July 10, 1926) is an American professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)."Lee Grodzins", MIT faculty directory, September 11, 2015, accessed July 6, 2016 After groundbreaking work as a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Grodzins joined the faculty of MIT, where he taught physics for nearly four decades. He was also head of R&D; for Niton Corporation, which developed devices to detect dangerous contaminants and contraband. He has written more than 150 technical papers and holds more than 50 US patents.
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He also developed devices to detect explosives, drugs and other contraband in luggage and cargo containers. Four of his devices have earned R&D; 100 awards, given annually by R&D; Magazine to the 100 most innovative technical products in the US."Innovation award recognises Niton alloy analyser", Tradelink Publications, October 7, 2008 Grodzins has written more than 150 technical papers and holds more than 50 US patents. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1964–65 and in 1971–72, and a Senior Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 1980–81.
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This led to the establishment by Arthur Hill Hassall of a chest hospital at Ventnor. The development of Ventnor and St Lawrence during the mid-19th century saw the construction of many fine houses and villas, and the creation of some beautiful gardens. These developments included the now- demolished Steephill Castle, and a number of houses built for the industrialist William Spindler in the 1880s.The Isle of Wight, David Wharton Lloyd, Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University Press, 2006, , The Undercliff is mostly accessible by a road, Undercliff Drive, running its length from Niton to Ventnor.
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A Map of Whitwell. There are only three roads exiting the village, Ventnor Road leading to Ventnor, Kemming Road leading to Niton and the main High Street which leads to Godshill. The main road leading to Ventnor has recently been widened and resurfaced to cope with the larger number of cars using it, however this has caused controversy with nearby residents with reports of many cars speeding through the village. A sign was later put up, warning motorists if their speed exceeded the 30-mile per hour speed limit.
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Quai Gustave Ador To extend the south-side promenade of the Lake of Geneva from the Jardin Anglais, the Quai Gustave-Ador was constructed in 1856 with a length of around 1,800 m. In 1936–37 the first rosebushes were planted and since then there are more than 13,000 rosebushes. You will find the Jardin Anglais, the Jet d'eau, the Baby plage, the Port-Noir, the Parc La Grange and the Parc des Eaux Vives at this promenade. From here you can see the famous Pierres du Niton.
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Watershoot Bay is a bay on the southernmost tip of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the south-west of the village of Niton. It faces south out into the English Channel, and is one of the smallest and remotest bays of the Isle of Wight with a rocky shoreline only around in length. It lies to the west of St. Catherine's Point lighthouse and is surrounded by a 170-acre area of undulating grassland and scrub owned by the National Trust and known as Knowles Farm.
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The town was founded as Heatherwood, but the name was changed around 1911 in honour of Edson Joseph Chamberlin, vice-president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. When Edson was declared the local rail centre, smaller communities such as Rosevear (abandoned), Wolf Creek, Carrot Creek and Niton Junction fell into a decline that continues today. In the 1950s, upgrading of Highway 16 caused a dramatic increase in private, commercial and industrial traffic. Today, the Yellowhead Highway carries some of the heaviest traffic flow in Alberta and has been declared the second Trans-Canada Highway.
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Historically Ventnor was difficult to reach by road, along narrow and steep tracks. In the mid-nineteenth century the three routes were, from the east, through Bonchurch via the steep White (now Bonchurch) Shute, from the north, via Old Shute described by Michael Freeman as "a precipitous descent", and from the west by a steep shute connecting Whitwell with St Lawrence. The modern routes respectively via the Leeson Road, Ocean View Road, and Whitwell Road, as well as the route to Niton along the Undercliff (closed to vehicles since 2014 following a landslip) were all created in the later nineteenth century.
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After Edwards was dismissed from his engagement at Oxford due to economic shortages, he retired to Niton, Isle of Wight, and occupied himself with projects for a second edition of his Memoirs of Libraries, with great alterations and improvements. Edwards spent his final years in poverty and was taken in rent-free by Rev. John Harrison, a Baptist minister, after having been thrown out for non- payment of rent. In November 1885, he got lost on an excursion and was found after several days "in a state of hypothermia sheltering inside a roofless building next to St. Catherine's Oratory and afterwards developed pneumonia".
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Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review stating: > Nobody does elusive DJ/producer better than Eric Prydz. Not only does he > take yonks between ~~albums~~ singles, but he also goes by no fewer than > nine separate monikers - our favourite being the oh-so macho 'Dukes of > Sluca'. However, three years after his hypnotic instrumental hit 'Pjanoo', > Prydz is returning under his familiar guise, seemingly eager to regain his > place amidst today's Eurodance boffs. After beginning in jangly electronic > fashion, 'Niton' soon becomes a suitably uplifting techno-house rocket > powered by a piano riff not too dissimilar to 'Pjanoo's'.
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Ashey, Bembridge North, Bembridge South, Binstead, Brading and St Helens, Brighstone and Calbourne, Carisbrooke East, Carisbrooke West, Central Rural, Chale, Niton and Whitwell, Cowes Castle East, Cowes Castle West, Cowes Central, Cowes Medina, East Cowes North, East Cowes South, Fairlee, Freshwater Afton, Freshwater Norton, Gurnard, Lake North, Lake South, Mount Joy, Newchurch, Newport North, Newport South, Northwood, Osborne, Pan, Parkhurst, Ryde North East, Ryde North West, Ryde South East, Ryde South West, St Johns East, St Johns West, Sandown North, Sandown South, Seaview and Nettlestone, Shalfleet and Yarmouth, Shanklin Central, Shanklin North, Shanklin South, Totland, Ventnor East, Ventnor West, Wootton, Wroxall and Godshill.
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In contrast, Baptist chapels are confined to the main towns and a few villages. Several congregations have a long unbroken history of worship: the three surviving rural chapels date from 1805 (Wellow), 1836 (Freshwater) and 1849 (Niton), and Castlehold Baptist Church at Newport was built in 1812. The Castlehold congregation seceded from the town's original Baptist chapel, which later developed a Unitarian character which it still holds. Congregationalism gained little ground on the island, but independent Congregational churches survive at Langbridge near Newchurch (founded in 1845) and Newport—where a 21st-century building houses a congregation with 17th-century origins.
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Isle of Wight: Ashey, Bembridge North, Bembridge South, Binstead, Brading and St Helens, Brighstone and Calbourne, Carisbrooke East, Carisbrooke West, Central Rural, Chale, Niton and Whitwell, Cowes Castle East, Cowes Castle West, Cowes Central, Cowes Medina, East Cowes North, East Cowes South, Fairlee, Freshwater Afton, Freshwater Norton, Gurnard, Lake North, Lake South, Mount Joy, Newchurch, Newport North, Newport South, Northwood, Osborne, Pan, Parkhurst, Ryde North East, Ryde North West, Ryde South East, Ryde South West, St Johns East, St Johns West, Sandown North, Sandown South, Seaview and Nettlestone, Shalfleet and Yarmouth, Shanklin Central, Shanklin North, Shanklin South, Totland, Ventnor East, Ventnor West, Wootton, Wroxall and Godshill.
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River Yar at Alverstone Riverside scene in early spring, near Alverstone The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St. Catherine's Down near Niton, close to the southern tip of the island. It flows across the Lower Cretaceous rocks of the eastern side of the island, through the gap in the central Upper Cretaceous chalk ridge of the Island at Yarbridge, then across the now drained Brading Haven to Bembridge Harbour in the north east. For most of its course, the river passes through rural areas. At Alverstone, a small weir uses water from the river to power a water mill.
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On July 19, 2010, Vader was arrested near Niton Junction, Alberta, on outstanding warrants unrelated to the disappearance of the McCanns. On July 27, Vader's sister, Bobbi-Jo, revealed to the media that her brother stayed with her family in Edmonton on July 4, a day after the McCanns were last seen, and that he appeared "tired... sick and [that] he needed to rest." Vader, while still being held in custody, was officially announced a suspect in the disappearance of the McCanns on August 31, 2010. On September 10, the RCMP announced they were searching a property south of Nojack, Alberta, as part of the investigation.
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Volume 1: historical text and archaeological inventory,' Report to the National Trust (Thames and Solent Region) The Luccombe area features some spectacular cliffs and scenery. It is a popular site for hang gliding and paragliding if there is an Easterly wind of around 12 mph and it is low water, and on good days flights to Sandown and back can be achieved. Luccombe forms the east end of the Ventnor Undercliff region, which extends for 12 kilometers from Blackgang to Luccombe, also encompassing the town of Ventnor and the villages of Bonchurch, St Lawrence, and Niton. There is some concern that the Ventnor Undercliff area is experiencing substantial coastal erosion.
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He leased a plot "in the wheat field adjoining the hotel" where the Lizard Wireless Telegraph Station still stands today. Recently restored by the National Trust, it looks as it did in January 1901, when Marconi received the distance record signals of from his transmitter station at Niton, Isle of Wight. The Lizard Wireless Station is the oldest Marconi station to survive in its original state, and is located to the west of the Lloyds Signal Station in what appears to be a wooden hut. On 12 December 1901 Poldhu Point was the site of the first trans Atlantic, wireless signal radio communication when Marconi sent a signal to St John's, Newfoundland.
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The Isle of Wight, David Wharton Lloyd, Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University Press, 2006, , Bonchurch was a particular focus of development, a number of elite Victorians renting or owning homes there (e.g. William Adams, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Henry Beaumont Leeson, Lord Macaulay, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, and Henry De Vere Stacpoole). Victorian Undercliff development also extended westward beyond Niton to Blackgang, partly out of the general trend for speculative building,McInnes, R., Marine Estate Research Report, Art as a tool in support of the understanding of coastal change, The Crown Estate – Caird Fellowship, 2008 Slope Stability Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford, 1991, Google Books (retrieved 5 July 2008 and partly in association with the establishment of the amusement park at Blackgang Chine.
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A warm admirer of Edward Edwards, a pioneer of municipal public libraries, Greenwood collected his personal relics and part of his library, and these he presented, with a handsome bookcase, to the Manchester public library, of which Edwards was the first librarian. In 1902, he wrote an interesting biography of Edwards, embodying the early history of the library movement, and he placed a granite monument over Edwards's grave at Niton, Isle of Wight. Greenwood formed a large bibliographical library, illustrating all phases of bibliographical work and research, which he presented to the Manchester public library in 1906, making additions to it afterwards, and leaving at his death sufficient money for its maintenance. 'The Thomas Greenwood Library for Librarians' contains about 12,000 volumes.
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The majority of Blackgang's Victorian coastal development, along with the chine itself, was obliterated by landslides and coastal erosion over the 20th century, part of a general pattern of erosion affecting the Undercliff area.EUROSION Case Study: LUCCOMBE - BLACKGANG ISLE OF WIGHT (UNITED KINGDOM) , Robin G. McINESS, Isle of Wight Centre for Coastal Environment A major landslide severed the old road between Blackgang and Niton in 1928, and subsequent ones destroyed most of the remaining road segment and adjoining houses, as well as the Sandrock Spring in 1978. Currently Blackgang comprises the amusement park (whose buildings incorporate some of the village's former residential houses such as the Blackgang Hotel and Five Rocks), a tearoom, and a few other houses. Clifftop walks in and around the area give panoramic views of the English Channel and the south-western Isle of Wight coast (the Back of the Wight).
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Decorated Gothic features survive at Arreton and Freshwater, and there are Perpendicular Gothic towers at Carisbrooke, Chale and Gatcombe, arcades at Brading, Brighstone and Mottistone, and porches at Arreton, Niton and Whitwell. The 17th century was a period of church restoration and some new construction. Yarmouth (1626) retains much of its original appearance; St Mary's Church at Cowes dates from 1657 but has been rebuilt; and rebuilding of older churches took place at Newchurch, Shalfleet, Shorwell and Godshill. Monuments to prominent island families such as the Oglander and Worsley baronets and the Leighs of Godshill are another important feature of this era. At several churches, though, church architecture and fittings of this era and of the 18th century was swept away amid Victorian restoration, and the island's stock of Anglican churches grew substantially in the 19th century in line with urban growth and the splitting up of ancient parishes.
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George Wynne Jeudwine anatpro was an eminent Anglican priest in the first third of the twentieth century.‘JEUDWINE, Rev. George Wynne’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 accessed 24 December 2012 Born on 12 April 1849, he was educated at Bradfield College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford in 1870;UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, 19 October 1870; p. 3; Issue 30222 and ordained in 1872.GENERAL ORDINATIONS The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, 26 September 1872; p. 6; Issue 30827 He was Vicar of Upton GreyLondon Gazette from 1875ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, 22 May 1875; p. 2; Issue 3019 to 1884; and then Rector of Niton from thenECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, 1 November 1884; p. 4; Issue 4005 until 1889.
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Its history on the island can be traced back to 1735, when John and Charles Wesley visited and Charles preached at Cowes; John's subsequent visits included a trip in 1781 to open a chapel in Newport. Six years later the first permanent preacher was appointed: originally a Wesleyan, Mary Toms joined the Bible Christian Methodists in 1817, and the Isle of Wight "[became] a stronghold of the Bible Christian movement". By 1851, when a religious census was carried out in the United Kingdom, the movement had 26 places of worship. Many old chapels built by the Bible Christians survive, for example at Brading (where Toms herself founded a "preaching house" in 1837), Rookley (1859), Arreton (1866) and Newport (1879–80). The Wesleyan branch of Methodism was also well- supported—there were 24 places of worship for Wesleyans in 1851—and many of their chapels remain in use, such as the "monumental" church in Ryde, the 1838 chapel at Godshill and the 1864 chapel at Niton.
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Historic England, the body responsible for listed buildings and other heritage assets in England, also publishes an annual "Heritage at Risk Register"—a survey of assets at risk through decay, damage and similar issues. The Anglican churches identified as at risk in the latest update were St Mary's Church in Cowes (affected by ingress of water), St James's Church in East Cowes (damp and structural problems), All Saints Church in Godshill (decaying stonework), St Thomas's Minster in Newport (decaying stonework and roofs), St John the Baptist's Church in Niton (decaying stonework, roof damage and ingress of water), St John's Church in Sandown (decaying stonework and ingress of water), the Church of St Saviour-on-the-Cliff in Shanklin (severe salt spalling of stonework and damage to windows), St Paul's Church in Shanklin (decaying stonework and timberwork and damage to windows) and Holy Trinity Church in Ventnor (decaying stonework). The Catholic Church of St Mary in Ryde is at risk due to water ingress.
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Diocese of Portsmouth, whose coat of arms appears on the right. All Church of England churches on the island are part of the Anglican Diocese of Portsmouth and the Archdeaconry of the Isle of Wight. This archdeaconry, one of three in the diocese, is split into two deaneries: East Wight and West Wight. The 33 churches in East Wight Deanery are at Arreton, Bembridge (Holy Trinity and St Luke's mission church), Binstead, Bonchurch (old and new churches), Brading, Godshill, Havenstreet, Lake, Newchurch, Niton, Ryde (All Saints, Holy Trinity and St James' in the town centre, St John's in the Oakfield area and St Michael and All Angels at Swanmore), Sandown (Christ Church and St John the Evangelist's), Seaview, Shanklin (St Blasius, St Peter's and St Saviour's), St Helens (St Helen's Church and St Catherine-by-the-Green), St Lawrence (old and new churches), Ventnor (Holy Trinity, St Alban's and St Catherine's), Whitwell, Wroxall and Yaverland.
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St Mark's Church, Wootton (1909) Much of Stone's work on the Isle of Wight was done at Church of England churches. He restored the ancient churches at Bonchurch (Old St Boniface Church), in 1923 and again in 1931, and St Lawrence (St Lawrence Old Church) in 1927. At Christ Church in Totland he designed the south aisle (1905–06) and the chancel (1910). Stone's work on church furnishings on the island included a crucifix mounted on a beam in the chancel of St Peter's Church, Shorwell (1904), the west porch at St Paul's Church, Shanklin (1911), restoration of the pulpit at St Edmund's Church, Wootton (1912), a new pulpit at St George's Church, Arreton (1924), the reredos at St John the Baptist's Church, Niton (1930), and the rood screen at the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Shalfleet. Stone designed war memorials in the churchyard of St George's Church, Arreton (1919), on the green outside Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge ( 1920) and in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Brading (undated).
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