Victorian photo #27: Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)

Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, was so called because according to legend St Boniface preached from there in 710. The path there was certainly steep. When George Millman visited in 1892 (see The Millman Letters), he wrote:

…we had a regular knee-bending job over this, had to traverse 17 stone steps, round & round, up through rocks & cavities, until just to our left we glided by the Pulpit Rock.

It appears that Pulpit Rock is now on private land and may not be open to the public.