Up and down Undercliff Avenue, residents are convinced the massive fire that destroyed a luxury apartment complex and nine houses across the street this week was the work of an arsonist.
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At Bonchurch the French landed easily at Monk's Bay, but were then faced with the difficulty of breaking out from what is known descriptively as the " Undercliff ".
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The cove is accessible only on foot; it is about 200 yards from Undercliff Drive, and is on the Isle of Wight Coastal Path directly adjacent to Ventnor Botanic Garden.
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At 11 : 15 p . m ., Edgewater's mayor, Bryan Christiansen, stood on Undercliff Avenue watching firefighters from more than 20 towns struggle to save more houses.
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A west wind blew the fire from the complex up the cliffs and onto Undercliff Avenue, burning the homes and shearing the roof off a three-family apartment building, police said.
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Sabine Baring-Gould's 1900 novel " Winefred, a story of the chalk cliffs " is set in the Undercliff area, with the Great Slip as its climax.
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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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The new road to Rottingdean, Marine Drive, was opened on 22 July 1932 by Percy John Pybus, Minister of Transport, with the cliffs protected by the Undercliff Walk sea-wall.
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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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West of Ventnor, the Southern Vectis 3 bus follows the section called Undercliff Drive as far as St Lawrence; the Southern Vectis 6 runs north-east from Ventnor to Bonchurch and beyond.
