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Picturesque villages such as Bonchurch and St Lawrence and the pretty bay of Steephill Cove are there to be discovered. Bonchurch, with its central pond, is one of the Island's best preserved Victorian villages and still retains that essential, mystical charm that attracted many eminent Victorians such as Charles Dickens and the historian, Lord Macaulay, and visitors such as Karl Marx. The poet Swinburne grew up here and is buried in the New Church of St Boniface
Ventnor Bay is one of the most picturesque beaches on the Island, and is ideal for families. Children splash and swim whilst parents look on from the Spyglass Poop Deck. The morning’s catch of fish and Ventnor Bay Lobster is available daily on the beach from the local fishermen.
The Cascade end of Ventnor beach which had a pier until it burnt down in 1998.
Ventnor perched on the cliffs at the Southern end of the Island looking out to see. Shielded from the North by St.Boniface Down the highest point in the Island
The Spyglass Inn on a friday night is the best pub in the world
Rough seas held back by granite boulders transported by barge from Scotland as part of the ongoing coastal protection scheme.
St.Lawrence in the heart of the Undercliff with some of the most expensive houses on the Island
Sun's hot today
Ventnor Wall Lizard
Did you know...
The air is so pure in Ventnor the Victorians built a hospital here for people with bronchial and breathing problems.
Seeds carried from the Caribbean by the trade winds have embedded themselves into the walls of the Underciff area and germinate.
Ventnor was named the 'English Madeira' by the Victorians, and there are more 'old' pop stars living there than any other place in the British Isle
Steephill Cove