Page "Blackgang Chine" Paragraph 5

According to a May 2000 talk to the Isle of Wight Postcard Club by the present Director, Mr Simon Dabell, the etymology is simply " black pathway " ( the original appearance of the chine ), but the theme park understandably fosters the interpretation of a smuggling origin.

Thus visitors to the park are greeted by a gigantic fibreglass smuggler between whose legs they could pass to enter.