Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight - The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. by George Brannon
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monuments have survived their reckless doom to ruin and neglect;
not even a spiry fragment sufficiently large or romantic to form a pleasing subject for the pencil, invite the mind to contemplation, or aid the poet's retrospective muse. * * * * * BINSTEAD, to which there is a good foot-path from Quarr through the woods, is about a mile westward of Ryde. Several genteel residences, mostly built in a pleasing cottage-style, adorned by groups of trees and shrubs, are scattered over a wide space of broken ground, where extensive stone-quarries have been worked for many centuries. It is a favorite walk with the inhabitants of Ryde, across the fields to the church (not seen from the road), which has lately been considerably enlarged and improved. The names of the respective villas will be found in the List of Seats. * * * * * RYDE. >> _The best may of seeing this populous town, by those who have little inclination, or perhaps less time, for perambulation is, from the Pier, to enquire first for_ BRIGSTOCK TERRACE--_walk on for about five minutes still westward--returning, pass by the_ CHURCH, _and round the_ TOWN-HALL, _and Market-place_, ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, _and the Theatre;--look into the_ ARCADE, _a little below;--traverse the street nearly opposite the theatre, which will open the eastern part of the town, where there is a handsome_ NEW CHURCH--_and the very agreeable Environs in the direction of Appley |
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