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For walking on the Isle of Wight
you need the Ordnance Survey Map: Outdoor Leisure 29
I leave my car at Southsea in the car park opposite
the hovercraft and make the 10 minute crossing
to Ryde on the Isle of Wight.The hovercraft leaves every
30 minutes.
The walk is about 12 miles total distance. The first part
of the walk is as walk No 6 then at the lower end of Latimer Road turn right
and follow it to the main road. Then turn left and follow the road around the
harbour.
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The next part of the walk takes you from the harbour to Bembridge Lifeboat Station. |
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At the end of Latimer Road turn left and walk on round Embankment Road with the harbour on your left. You will pass the houseboats that are in the photo's below |
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When you pass the cafe on the far side of the harbour go straight ahead and look for the coastal footpath sign that takes you to the beach.The tide will need to be out for the next part of the walk as it takes you along the beach to the Lifeboat Station. |
Bembridge Harbour |
Lifeboat Station |
If the tide is in you will have to take the footpaths marked in blue on the map.When you reach the beach turn to your right, you can see the Lifeboat Station a short distance along. |
The map on the right shows the route to Culver Down from where you get your first glimpse of Sandown Bay and Sandown in the distance. |
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Just past theLifeboat Station pick up the coastal footpath that runs inland. It's a long straight path.Turn left at the end and look for the coastal footpath signs that take you through a small housing estate.On the map above the blue line is the coastal footpath, but recently it has been necessary to make a detour around it because of subsidence. You will have to see when you get there if it is now open. |
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After the detour follow the coastal path, go to the left of some timber bungalows and head uphill to Culver Down. |
Culver Down |
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The picture on the left looks back over
your walk. In the distance Bembridge Lifeboat Station, and in the foreground
the track which you have just come up. |
Culver Down to Sandown |
From here you get a good view of Sandown Bay, Sandown with it's pier and further on Shanklin. From Culver Down follow the coastal path downhill all the way to the seafront at Sandown |
Sandown Bay from Culver Down |
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If you wanted to shorten this walk you could get a bus from Ryde to Bembridge harbour and then it would give you more time to look around Sandown. If it was a nice day a deck chair on the beach maybe. |
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