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| Name: | St Boniface Down |
| Hill number: | 2914 |
| Height: | 242m / 794ft |
| RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| County/UA: | Isle of Wight |
| County (CoH): | Isle of Wight (CoH) |
| County (CoA): | Isle of Wight (CoA) |
| Island: | Isle of Wight |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Administrative County Top, SIB, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,CoH,CoU,CoA,SIB,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SZ 56881 78520 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: natural ground inside outer security fence |
| Drop: | 242m |
| Col: | Sea |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 196 (1:25k) OL29E |
| Observations: | ground near car park 550m ENE at SZ 57277 78653 is 0.34m lower in LIDAR; embankment within compound east of bend in road at SZ 56735 78548 is 0.5m higher in LIDAR but man-made. |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 362 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Daddy, Mummy and Edie | FreyaK | 11/04/2024 |
| With Daddy, Mummy and Freya | EdieK | 11/04/2024 |
| Mark Jackson | 09/04/2024 | |
| On walk from Niton to Shanklin in gale force winds | JohnIvor | 28/03/2024 |
| lerritt | 22/10/2023 | |
| Walk w/Devon. Parked Shanklin. Shanklin Down, St Boniface Down Trig, Shanklin Chine loop. | ZacField | 06/10/2023 |
| A Peckish | 05/10/2023 | |
| beckybags | 05/10/2023 | |
| Barry Smith | 20/08/2023 | |
| From the Ventnor Down National Trust car park, circular route across Luccombe Down, Bonchurch Down and St Boniface Down. Hot humid day, but beautiful views. Walked right round the perimeter fence. | Lazylizzie | 16/08/2023 |
| arjh | 13/08/2023 | |
| Early evening wander. parked at Trig, but higher ground visible. after a wander along the security fence, I gave up. others have claimed this so until suitably chastised, so will I. | Shutterlag | 21/06/2023 |
| With E. Circular walk from St Martins Road car park Wroxall via Wroxall Down, Luccombe Down, Shanklin Down and St Martins Down. Access to hp within compound not possible despite requesting permission from worker who was driving into compound as I arrived. Could not convince him only wanted to visit hp but firmly refused and advised security cameras picking up all who access compound. Could have got under another locked gate further along but in view of security, like others had to make do with full circuit of perimeter fence. Combined with a sea mist rolling across The Downs during walk meant no views at all! Win some, lose some! Visited trig points on Wroxall Down and Shanklin Down on walk. | Beeliner | 20/06/2023 |
| As known, this can be done by car but we did a horseshoe from Wroxall, Wroxall Down, St. Boniface Down, Bonchurch Down Luccombe Down, Shanklin Down, Wroxall. Really good walk. | Neil Midgley | 02/06/2023 |
| stub1969 | 01/06/2023 | |
| Walked in from Wroxall Down to the west. The compound was locked, but visited both the roadside northwest of the radar station, and the old car park, so counting this with the head-over-summit rule. | Mariana Trench | 27/05/2023 |
| Drove up to Car Park. Visited Trig and High Points around perimeter fence. Good views of the Island. | Iris Jephcote | 21/05/2023 |
| Drove up to Car Park. Visited Trig and High Points around perimeter fence. Good views of the Island. | Ivy Jephcote | 21/05/2023 |
| Drove up to Car Park. Visited Trig and High Points around perimeter fence. Good views of the Island. | Jephcote83 | 21/05/2023 |
| HighwayToFell | 07/05/2023 | |
| Cycled up Down Lane. Not for the faint hearted. | cjwilliams | 05/05/2023 |
| Minto | 14/01/2023 | |
| Train, catamaran and bus to Bonchurch and then ascended the steep path. Onwards to Whitwell hill and St Catherine's hill for a lovely day in the cold wind. | Buck | 13/01/2023 |
| Parked at trig and walked up road . | Mark Sims | 07/09/2022 |
| G M M | Idris | 07/09/2022 |
| GMM | maryjdavies | 07/09/2022 |
| with Tilly and dog Figgy | mazz | 03/07/2022 |
| A nice sunny day trip to the Isle of Wight. Ascended steep path from Leeson Road, Bonchurch. Views of the sea are magnificent; my favourite county top so far. The highest point is probably about 200 yards to the west of the radio station, but I did not endeavour to climb the rather tall barbed wire fence. | hillbagger91 | 01/06/2022 |
| dubvine | 21/05/2022 | |
| dave g | 13/05/2022 | |
| Walked up from Ventnor as part of cycle tour of the Isle | Stevooo | 14/04/2022 |
| Like most had to be contented with walking along the perimeter fence, though satisfied that the point in the old carpark area is high enough to claim the hill on the head height rule. | milimana | 30/03/2022 |
| Parked at the trig. Great views. | ekm | 22/02/2022 |
| Parked at the trig and walked round the compound. | paulhilder | 12/02/2022 |
| Shanklin > Upper Hyde > Shanklin Down > Luccombe Down Viewpoint > St. Boniface Down Trig. Point > Bonchurch Down > Nansen Hill > Devil's Chimney > The Landslip > Luccombe Village > Shanklin. | Winterfloodian | 24/01/2022 |
| andy63 | 04/01/2022 | |
| Ben Rinnes | 06/12/2021 | |
| andrew brown | 21/11/2021 | |
| Andrew Brown 2 | 21/11/2021 | |
| iainwalton | 27/10/2021 | |
| geralddavison | 08/10/2021 | |
| An unsatisfactory bag this one. As others have I walked round the perimeter and visited the “sub points” listed on here. | Crib Goch | 07/10/2021 |
| Trig and Perimeter walk around the security fence. Looked easy enough to scale in places, but didn't fancy an arrest whilst on holiday. | summitter | 27/09/2021 |
| Did the summit of Isle of Wight on that day by the 1m rule. Very steep walk up Devil's Chimney and walked passed the Radar Station on the way back down too Ventnor. | DavidHiner | 21/09/2021 |
| Parked in Wroxall. St Martin's Down, Shanklin Down, as near as we could get to St Boniface Down, walked all the way around the compound as we couldn't get in. Then followed the landslide path to Ventnor, up through Ventnor to the Golf course, across to Stanbury Down,then the obelisk and Appuldurcombe House then back to Wroxall. 12 miles . | JulieB | 07/09/2021 |
| From Wroxall via St Martin's Down and Shanklin Down. Circled the large enclosure that contains the high point. | KeithByTheC | 07/09/2021 |
| A couple of workmen were on site and kindly let me go to the high point. A huge stroke of luck arriving at the time they were there. | Alan Caine | 20/07/2021 |
| From Shanklin via Shanklin Down, descended to Devils Chimney, coast path to Shanklin. As noted previously no access to summit, nevertheless a great walk. | Cheshire Claret | 10/07/2021 |
| From Sandown as part of Jill's 80k 4 80 years walk. | MichaelF | 10/07/2021 |
| On a walk from Ryde to Ventnor | PhilipChaston | 03/07/2021 |