Shanklin Chine (Shanklin)
Shanklin Chine is a lovely wooded area at the Isle of Wight seaside resort of Shanklin.
A wooded ravine, it is 180 feet wide and 300 feet deep, with a stream running it and a spectacular waterfall.
The chine is open to the public, and it is decorated in the Summer with fairy lights.
There is a Heritage Centre, with changing displays, mostly on a maritime theme.
Also at the chine are remains of PLUTO, the Pipe Line Under the Ocean created to supply fuel following the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944.
In 1545 the men of Shanklin defeated French raiders here, and later John Keats wrote part of his "Endymion" here in 1819.