A short introduction to some of the beauties of Bonchurch, in this video we start up on Leeson road and walk down the Chimney steps to the 2 churches, then continue down to Monks bay via a beautiful stream with some interesting history surrounding Charles Dickens, exert taken from Haviland cottage website:-
1849 Charles Dickens’s summer of research at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
Charles Dickens’s second visit to the Isle of Wight was a deep immersion to village life when in 1849 when spent a long summer in Bonchurch village. There was a letter to his Accountants on 17th July 1849 ( see 3) , but a much more interesting letter to his wife Kate dated 16th June , but dated stamped 17th July - indicating Dickens got the month wrong ( as he sometimes did ). The letter shows his enthusiasm for the stream that ran through the property. The source of the stream is a natural spring in the grounds of Winterbourne, it drops down the cliff face to the shore, where the aptly named "Waterfall cottage" stands today. The perpetual "shower-bath' that Dickens had constructed was located behind the garage of Waterfall Cottage.
The stream still runs through the property and alongside the Old Saint Boniface church., and if you venture on our walk, you will walk over it !
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