SHANKLIN, a parish in the liberty of EAST-MEDINA,
Isle of Wight division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
9 miles (S. E.) from Newport, containing 155
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the rectory of Bonchurch, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Winchester. In the church is an oak chest,
curiously carved, with a Latin inscription, dated 1512,
and the arms of the see, the gift of Thomas Silksted,
Prior of Winchester. At a short distance from the village
is a prodigious chasm, called Shanklin Chine, which,
extending a considerable way inland from the coast, and
being overgrown with shrubs and brushwood, forms a
picturesque and extremely romantic scene.