The Devil's Chimney is a scenic rock cleft with steps descending into the Bonchurch Landslips between

Bonchurch Bonchurch is a small village to the east of Ventnor, now largely connected to the latter by suburban development, on the southern part of the Isle of Wight, England. One of the oldest settlements on the Isle of Wight, it is situated on The Unde ...

and Luccombe,

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. Its upper end is at the Smuggler's Haven Tearooms on

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, at the southern end of clifftop parkland accessed from the Leeson Road car park on the

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, where there is a

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bus route 3 stop. One of several such paths connecting the clifftop to the Isle of Wight Undercliff, the Devil's Chimney follows a joint through the

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crags capping the cliffs above the Landslip. The path continues down through the Landslip as footpath V65C, meeting the coastal path V65A at its foot. A similar rock cleft, the Chink, is about 200 yards north. The feature is within the Bonchurch Landslip nature reserve, managed by Gift to Nature on behalf of the owners, the Isle of Wight Council.

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