Niton, Isle of Wight
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Niton is a village on the Isle of Wight, near Ventnor.
The source of the Eastern Yar is in the parish, a little to the north of the village.
Niton church, has an embattled sixteenth-century tower and squat spire. In front of the porch is a modern Celtic cross inserted in the four steps of the old churchyard cross. The chancel is of the Decorated period, and has a rich modern reredos. The registers, which date from 1560, show the following entry:
July the 1st, Anno Domini 1675. Charles II, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, etc., came safely ashore at Puckaster, after he had endured a great and dangerous storm at sea.
Near the Celtic cross a marble monument covers the grave of Edward Edwards, (d. 1886) the pioneer of the public library movement.
