Editing Niton (section)

==Geography==
[[Image:View over Niton.JPG|left|thumb|300px|Panorama over Niton]]
Niton village is split in half by a break in the inner cliff of the Undercliff, through which passes the main road. Upper Niton lies in a hollow and is set around a crossroads.

The lower part of the village, below the inner cliff and above [[Reeth Bay]], is known as Niton [[Undercliff (Isle of Wight)|Undercliff]], and was a small fishing hamlet up until the 19th century. This part of Niton then flourished in [[Victorian era|Victorian]] times due to the popularity of [[Ventnor]] as a health resort, and many mansions and holiday cottages were built there.

Mount Cleves House was originally constructed in the late 1700s, and substantially remodelled in the early 1800s. Its residents included a Mr Kirkpatrick who owned the Isle of Wight Bank at the time and the owner of the Mortimer Foundry in Newport.<ref name=nhle>{{NHLE|num=1209276|access-date=29 June 2014}}</ref>

The road along the Undercliff continues east towards [[Ventnor]], but a major landslip in February 2014 has closed it to vehicular traffic between Niton and Ventnor, although it remains open for walkers and riders. The Undercliff at Niton includes the most southerly point of the Isle of Wight, [[St. Catherine's Point]] and St. Catherine's [[Lighthouse]]. That is also where the [[Navtex]] transmitting station is located.

The source of the [[Eastern Yar (river), Isle of Wight|Eastern Yar]] is in the parish, just north of the village.<ref name="River Yar source">{{cite web |url=http://www.wight-cam.co.uk/WightCAM/HTML/2002/020531-thumbnail.htm |title=River Yar Trail - Source to Sea |publisher=WightCam |access-date=2009-06-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423021454/http://www.wight-cam.co.uk/WightCAM/HTML/2002/020531-thumbnail.htm |archive-date=2009-04-23 }}</ref>

Niton together with [[Whitwell, Isle of Wight|Whitwell]] is a [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]].<ref name="statistics">{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/geographic_area_listings/downloads/EnglishParishes&WelshCommunities_N&C_2004.xls |title=English Parishes & Welsh Communities N&C 2004 |publisher=www.statistics.gov.uk |access-date=2007-05-03}}</ref>