St Boniface Down is the highest point of which British island?
St Boniface Down St Boniface Down St Boniface Down is a chalk down on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located close to the town of Ventnor, in the southeast of the Island, and rises to , the Island's highest point, north of the town. There is reputed to be a wishing well on its southern slope, which requires the wisher to climb up from the south without looking back. In 1545 a French invasion force attempted this against a force of the Isle of Wight Militia commanded by Sir John Fyssher- which allegedly included several women archers- and were routed. In
St Boniface Down of Special Scientific Interest. The gravel capping supports extensive tracts of gorse "Ulex europaeus" with intervening areas of heathland and acid grassland dominated by heather "Calluna vulgaris", bell heather "Erica cinerea", purple moor-grass "Molinia caerulea", bristle bent "Agrostis curtisii" and locally bilberry "Vaccinium myrtillus". The occurrence of heathland on deep gravel overlying chalk, the naturalised holm oak woodland and the juxtaposition of heath and chalkland vegetation are all unusual biological features in Britain. "St Boniface Down" is also the name and was the inspiration of a 1956 work by the English composer, Trevor Duncan. St Boniface Down St Boniface Down