Major landslip near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, over night on 10th-11th December 2023
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The lovely Smuggler's Haven tea room (sold recently) has lost its car park and toilet block overnight during a major landslip that's also caused the evacuation of twenty homes.
Thankfully no-one appears to have been harmed and although gardens have been lost the properties appear intact for now. So sad for people living here: we hope the situation stabilises in this notoriously unstable area directly above what is aptly name The Landslip.
Leeson Road, the major route out of the Undercliff to Shanklin, has been closed, and is likely to remain so for a while. The edge of this dramatically expanded landslip is now just a few metres from the carriageway.
To top it off, Southern Water has caused the closure of another of the major routes out of Ventnor this afternoon (11th), so there's now only one way in and out of the Undercliff, via Whitwell.
In other news, my poor van sits only about 800m from the edge of this landslip. My current plan is to keep it taxes, insured and parked on the road where I'll live in it over winter. I'll save for a new van and get one next spring...
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The lovely Smuggler's Haven tea room (sold recently) has lost its car park and toilet block overnight during a major landslip that's also caused the evacuation of twenty homes.
Thankfully no-one appears to have been harmed and although gardens have been lost the properties appear intact for now. So sad for people living here: we hope the situation stabilises in this notoriously unstable area directly above what is aptly name The Landslip.
Leeson Road, the major route out of the Undercliff to Shanklin, has been closed, and is likely to remain so for a while. The edge of this dramatically expanded landslip is now just a few metres from the carriageway.
To top it off, Southern Water has caused the closure of another of the major routes out of Ventnor this afternoon (11th), so there's now only one way in and out of the Undercliff, via Whitwell.
In other news, my poor van sits only about 800m from the edge of this landslip. My current plan is to keep it taxes, insured and parked on the road where I'll live in it over winter. I'll save for a new van and get one next spring...
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- Read more about bird watching on Ventnor Downs in my booklet, Bird Watching around Ventnor, Isle of Wight, here (Amazon affiliate link): amzn.to/3QjRbSy
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My favourite, from Romana Startfield: amzn.to/3RLCBDS
Hudson's vanlife book: amzn.to/3LMMw8y
Odom's minimalist van lifer book: amzn.to/3Q7cBlu
Kristine's vanlife book collection: amzn.to/3PZSzcl
Some of my favourite books on the craft of book self-publishing:
How to make a living from your writing: amzn.to/47oHdo8
How to market a book: amzn.to/478aW4T
Let’s get digital: amzn.to/478anrT
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looks so peaceful there, i love the IoW
My wife and I have never been to the Isle of Wight, so I decided to book a week in May at Ventnor. After I had booked I thought I would look at some videos on CZcams and I found this video. OMG. I hadn't heard about this landslide and at first I thought I had made a big mistake as we are staying quite local to the landslide.
My heart goes out to those who have lost their business and those whose houses are in peril. We are still coming to Ventnor in May and hopefully the area concerned will stabilize and get back to some sort of normality. Thanks for the video. Quite brave walking so close to the area of the landslide.
You'll love it here. The landslip is very localised relative to the scale of the Undercliff. It seems to have stabilised to some extent so, fingers and toes crossed...
Excellent video. Thankyou for posting
Born and bred in Ventnor, so really enjoyed the walk. A very informative video of a tragic event for the folks in that area.
Stay tuned for more such videos
Sad to see,hope the homeowners are OK.Was in Ventnor in early July for the round the island race and scouting locations for my artwork.
I love Bonchurch so pretty I lived in Ventnor and st Lawrence such a beautiful island .
Moved to Sussex now going to move to Devon. I loved the spy glass inn such a brilliant pub use to go with friends there watched a few storms from the pub love it.
❤
It is a brilliant pub and especially good for music, it often crops up in my dreams funnily enough…
This is utterly heartbreaking 😢
Thanks
Thanks so much Alma. Hope you liked the video : )
Oh my! The landslip has been one of my favourite places to walk through since the late 70's when I first visited as a child. Managed to get back through there August last year and April this year after a 20 year hiatus - glad I made it through one more time before this collapse. I assume that means the Devils Chimney is gone (it sure looks like it). I hope those homes and the Old St Boniface Church are safe! Future looks bleak for Smugglers Haven, though :(
Yes the Chimney is gone, it was reported in the County Press that the Wishing Seat may also have disappeared. It’s heartbreaking for the Smugglers Haven, they had renovated and refreshed the menu and were making it a wonderful place to sit for coffee and a view. I shall miss walking this area I expect it will years before it recovers as a safe coast walk, if it ever does, but nature will cover the devastation
@@marciagoodall8318 cheers - I saw ambiguous reports on Tuesday that the Chimney 'might' have survived, or not. Looking at the devastation I'd be surprised if it was still intact. Smugglers was always a great spot to start/end a walk with a cream tea or a slab of cake :(
czcams.com/video/K7NiFnFVkfU/video.htmlsi=fH1DYMZtZGabjkBz it’s still there
Came for the landslide information, subscribed for the vanlife and Ventnor content! From an Island-born geologist
Great stuff. I'll be sure to upload some more landslip videos! The grabon up the top is misbehaving so Newport Road is closed again - only one way out of Ventnor now (unless you walk or cycle...)
@@Cornishvandweller Yeah, I’ve heard there’s some long diversions, and such a shame to see Ventnor get close to being cut-off.
@@georgec2894 I found this from a study done in 1995:
GEOTECHNICAL STUDY AREA G3
BONCHURCH LANDSLIDE, VENTNOR UNDERCLIFF, ISLE OF WIGHT, UK
Of greater concern was the potential extension of land instability northwards towards properties
and the A3055 Shanklin-Ventnor road situated upslope of The Landslip (Plate G3c). It was
considered that the built development and main road were not immediately at risk from the
landslide due to the fact that the instability was largely confined to within The Landslip and that
the development is set back at least 90m from the nearest instability. However, the resultant
unloading of slopes within The Landslip adjacent to the boundaries of the landslide, will have
undoubtedly caused a decline in stability in these areas. There is significant potential for the
extension of landslide activity upslope, particularly along the northern boundary, which is at a
higher elevation due to the geological dip. The opening of cracks and joints noted soon after
the landslide in February 1995 may indicate the precursor signs of such an extension of
instability.
At Bonchurch Shute there is also potential for further slope instability given the extent and
continuity of crack damage. The consequences are two-fold. First there is the potential for
failure of the ground on the seaward side of the road, which would lead to loss of property in the
road. Given that the area at risk has no natural passive support on the downslope side, the
potential for an abrupt movement cannot be ruled out which would have significant implications
for the safety of local residents and road traffic. Second, gradual development and unloading of
the south-west side of the bluff could have a detrimental effect on the stability of the Upper
Greensand bench as indicated above.
So sad.lovely this place and visiting isle of wight
I used to spend weekends and school holidays staying at the other end of Madeira Road when I was growing up 40+ years ago and remember my grandfather showing me, with the use of a soup bowl how coastal erosion works. So sad to see it all falling away. I remember at Blackgang Chine they said the blue slipper was in a band from Blackgang and headed north east inland. I didn't know it was over that side too. The opening aerial shots on your follow-up video (linked via the thumbnail at the end of this one) show just how much land has slipped.
Thanks for posting. Very nice video, but terrible to see the devastation caused by the landslip. I don't live on the island but it's like a 2nd home, having spent so many holidays there. A few years ago we stayed in Bonchurch and walked the coastal path to Shanklin. The weather was hot and sunny (it was July) and I took lots of photos. It's difficult to imagine a more beautiful place with the sea one side, lush vegetation and cliffs the other side. Such a pity.
It is very beautiful. Although those homeowners will have problems going forward, the wildlife of the Undercliff will thrive. It's opened up the whole area, now very sunny, so the shrubs will burst into the life, the Dormice appreciating that, the Glanville Fritillary butterflies will probably build up a massive colony as vegetation colonises...
@@Cornishvandweller Yes, good point, nature will make the most of it. Near where I live (in Surrey) we had a huge heath fire a couple of years ago and at the time it looked awful, but now you'd hardly know it had happened and the plants and animals are back.
Brilliant little video of the Bonchurch Undercliff ! That's a massive landslide, made even worse by the fact that this bit of coast has been relatively stable since Victorian times. I reckon Leeson Road is likely to remain closed for a very long time, possibly never to reopen ! The landslip has ventured very close to the road, so another landslip in that area is probable in future. I have travelled often on a double decker bus along that road from Shanklin to Ventnor and it doesn't bear thinking about for a bus to crash off the road during a landslip ! Also look at the gap between the landslip and Boniface Down / Nansen Hill behind. There is scarcely any room to rebuild the road further back in a safe position without encroaching on the downland, and the National Trust would not be very happy about that ! Even then, would it still be safe ? It would cost a fortune to shore up the road and it would desecrate the surrounding countryside in the process ! Years ago I used to walk and cycle all through the undercliff and down to Luccombe Chine, and Devil's Chimney and it is an amazing area, but like a lot of coastline on the South Coast, the cliffs are very unstable and can fall at any time, especially during very wet weather and wintertime.
I'd be amazed if Leeson Road survives the winter. The cliff face is now but a few metres from the carriageway. I can't see an engineering solution - even bridging a gap here wouldn't work to my eye. It's going the way of the old Blasckgang Road and looks more precarious that the Undercliff Drive in St Lawrence that's been closed never to re-open. Let's hope the grabon up the top of Ventnor doesn't decide it's also a stress fracture in need of some relief...
You are dead right about that ! Sad to state it, because that was such a lovely road to travel along ! Global warming is having a profound effect on the climate. In the Alps they have had some tremendous rockfalls, in Bondo in the Bregaglia, and a mountain called the Dru, near Chamonix, all caused by thawing of the permafrost ! Many Thanks for your interesting article !@@Cornishvandweller
It's a double whammy: more intense rain seeping through from inland, and more intense sea storminess eating away at the toe of the cliffs. We'll have a sheer chalk sea cliff at the base of Nansen Hill before we know it, like Culver, but the chalk here is much softer.
11:20 You'll often sight a seal that lives along there.
Really nice video.
Time to re-open the railway!
Absolutely
Walked past that van a few times I think, often wondered about its story!
I been there dun that
Do you live in your van.
Yup. Well, I have been. But it's dead so am looking for a replacement
Question is Devils Chimney still viable to walk there ?
It's been confirmed today from assessment of video footage that the Devil's Chimney is gone along with the Wishing Seat and probably the Chink too. Essentially everything anybody remembers from the Landslip has been erased.
Sadly that was taken down with the rest of this length of cliff face. It is no more
Update to my last reply - it seems the Wishing Seat is still there, some intrepid (foolish?) locals have ventured down and found it.
What device did you use to film this please?
The 'on-the-ground' footage was filmed by me using my iPhone Mini 13 (see: amzn.to/3GIVsc3) - a fantastic little device. The drone footage is from the Island Echo and, I gather, shot using a dji Mini (i.e. amzn.to/3NpXlOL). I use iMovie to knit clips together, but DeVinci Resolve is a vastly more advanced bit of editing software that's free to download.
Knew this area was slipping years ago...
Well it's Bonchurch Landslip... The clue is in the name 😂
Where is the place of the supposed sanddown clown encounter ? Would be nice to go visit the area
Bloody hell. What a dull place to live. I can see why prisons were built there. No incentive for some old lag to try escaping.
You'd definitely not like it here
Well then it's a mercy for you (and us) that you don't live here.
Admittedly, the video does show a lot of unnecessary wandering about before it gets to the point.
Its sad for people who own property in this area - it must make their houses worthless/worth very little. I imagine that insurance for these houses is not possible.
I walked around the island many years ago, so i know how beautiful it is.
You seemed to get lost!
As usual!
Gutted. Im on the island every year. Ive walked the chimney with my partner but was hoping 2 walk it with my daughters
It had been closed for 6 months prior to this.
Just to let you know ive been driving Vans with no MOT for yrs, seriously the police friends i have have told me they have far too important things to do than pulling MOT dodgers, even anpr cameras can't be arsed fining you. And some insurance companies even pay out if an accident isn't your fault. Just get the gut's to try it. It's only £100 fine anyway. Just letting you know if you're struggling like me with money.😊 great video thanks for taking us with you 💯🚐🚐
You can't get insurance without an MOT. You get pulled for this enough times, they'll sling you into gaol, Mate. That's the end result if you keep getting caught. Dunno what it's like on the Isle of Wight but it sure ain't like that in Sarf London. Thanks for the heads up tho, but you gotta give me more convincing than this reassurance on youtube.
@@nowhere1725 so how come ive got insurance with no MOT.derrr do your homework
If you have an accident your insurance wouldn’t pay out without a valid mot certificate
The filth love you.
Exactly.
Tell Stephen Bishop to do his homework, lol
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