Recently restored by the National Trust, it looks as it did in January 1901, when Marconi received the distance record signals of from his transmitter station at Niton, Isle of Wight.
32.
For the purpose of extended Shipping forecasts, the Met Office uses Niton as the name of the forecast area covering the Atlantic from FitzRoy, North to Irish Sea and East to Thames.
33.
A few steep roads ( probably ancient routes, locally termed " shutes " ) connect the clifftop to the lower Undercliff level : Niton Shute, St Lawrence Shute, and Bonchurch Shute.
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Victorian Undercliff development also extended westward beyond Niton to Blackgang, partly out of the general trend for speculative building, and partly in association with the establishment of the amusement park at Blackgang Chine.
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A major landslide severed the old road between Blackgang and Niton in 1928, and subsequent ones destroyed most of the remaining road segment and adjoining houses, as well as the Sandrock Spring in 1978.
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The word " Niton " is derived from the ancient water god Neptune, who was revered by the Gauls who settled at the lake, as old inscriptions in Geneva and Lausanne indicate.
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The lower part of the village, below the inner cliff, is known as Niton Victorian times due to the popularity of Ventnor as a health resort, and many mansions and holiday cottages were built there.
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The Sir David Wilkie ( 1785 1841 ) titled, " " Sir Willoughby Gordon and his Daughter Julia, Cooking on a Griddle at Puckaster, near Niton, Isle of Wight 1822 " ".
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The reference point for the Swiss national height network is the Pierres du Niton ( French : " Neptune's Stones " ), a pair of unusual rocks in the harbour of Lake Geneva.
40.
After the completion of his Oxford engagement he retired to Niton, Isle of Wight, and occupied himself with projects for a recast of his " Memoirs of Libraries ", with great alterations and improvements.
