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Shanklin Down Summit View

Shanklin Down Summit View

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Shanklin Down Summit View

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Isle of Wight National Landscape

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Location: Shanklin, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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mi1994

May 14, 2019

Hiking

Shanklin Down offers, perhaps, the widest view of any summit on the Island. It's just a few metres shy of the Island's highest point (which is St Boniface Down; just …

Sprike

August 12, 2019

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Great Views across Shanklin and Sandown Bay to Culver Cliff in the distance

Natalie

November 10, 2023

Running

Arguably one of the best views on the Isle of Wight, from Shanklin Down you can see all the way out to the Nab Tower lighthouse in the east, out to the Needles Headland in the west and even over the Solent to the mainland.

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