St Ninian's Church on Ballaquayle Road was built on land given, and paid for, by the philanthropist Henry Noble, and dedicated to St Ninian in tribute to Noble's Cumbrian roots; he was born at Clifton in Cumbria, a county long associated with that saint. Designed in the Gothic Revival style by the London architect W. D. Caröe, with the building work carried out by R. Costain and Sons of Blundellsands, the church was erected in 1913 and consecrated on 25 March 1914 by the Bishop of Sodor and Man, Dr Denton Thompson. It is a substantial building, 140 feet long and 63 feet across the transepts, with an 85-foot tower, and a parish hall was added to the site in 1930, built of artificial stone by Messrs Callow and Sons of Douglas.
Stadium Corner appears in Wikipedia's circuit history under closely related names "Castletown Stadium" and "Stadium Bends", and has seen two recorded fatal accidents: Mark Madsen-Mygdal in 2013 and James Cowton in 2018. No source consulted confirmed the exact origin of the "Stadium" name itself.
Stanley House on Castle Street, per William Henry Cooper's history of the town, once served as a Girls' High School; auctioneer, coroner and Castletown Commissioner D. T. Callow later used its front room as an office after buying the property, and it subsequently traded as Miss Paul's confectioner's shop before further use as a baker's and then a butcher's. The house retains an attractive Georgian fanlight above its front door.
Stella Maris, at around 24 miles, is a sweeping right-hand curve climbing towards the very outskirts of the Ramsey settlement, immediately preceding the Ramsey Hairpin. It functions mainly as the run-in to the Hairpin rather than a point with its own separate history.
The Stone Bridge over the Sulby River on Bowring Road, Ramsey, was built in 1755 and widened in 1840, and has carried traffic across the river into the town for over 250 years. It was granted protected building status in September 2025 as part of a group of historic Manx landmarks recognised together, ranging from medieval bridges to Victorian railway structures.
Sulby Methodist Chapel stands on Main Road in Sulby, a village with a long history of Methodist activity in the surrounding Ramsey circuit through the nineteenth century. Beyond its Registered Buildings listing, no verifiable construction date or further history specific to this chapel building could be confirmed online.
Sulby Old School stood on Main Road in the village of Sulby, about four miles west of Ramsey in the parish of Kirk Christ Lezayre, a village noted historically for the picturesque Sulby Glen and its waterfall. Beyond its Registered Buildings listing as a former school, no verifiable construction date or further history specific to this building could be confirmed online.
Sulby Straight is the 1.5-mile blast through Sulby village starting at around 19.16 miles, and it is the fastest stretch of the entire course. During practice for the 2006 TT, Bruce Anstey was clocked at 206 mph here, a figure that as of 2015 stood as the unofficial outright speed record both for the course and for the Isle of Man. The straight begins at Caley's Corner, named for local shopkeeper Ray Caley (d. 2017), and the road here was widened ahead of the 1938 TT.
Ramsey Harbour Swing Bridge, spanning the River Sulby to link the town centre with Mooragh Promenade, opened on 29 June 1892, its 210-foot swing span built by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington. It remains the only structure of its kind on the island, swinging open horizontally to let vessels pass between the harbour and the inner basin, and was refurbished over the winter of 2013 before being granted protected building status in February 2024.
These traditionally thatched Manx cottages sit above the shore at Niarbyl, near Dalby, in an area now cared for by Manx National Heritage alongside the Niarbyl Café and Visitor Centre. One of the fishermen's cottages here has appeared on screen twice: as Ned Devine's cottage in the 1998 film 'Waking Ned', and decades earlier in Nigel Kneale's 1968 television adaptation of 'The Year of the Sex Olympics'. The cottages were registered on the Protected Buildings Register on 23 May 1983, among the very first entries on the register.
The Ayres National Nature Reserve is an 8-kilometre stretch of low sand-dune and shingle coastline running from Cronk-y-Bing to the Point of Ayre, the island's northernmost tip. Its centrepiece is an expanse of lichen heath -- known as 'grey dune' for the colour the lichens give the ground -- a habitat found nowhere else on the island and only in scattered patches elsewhere in the British Isles. The reserve's shingle beach is the only place on the Isle of Man where little terns breed, alongside linnets, lapwings and skylarks, and grey seals haul out along its shores; the Point of Ayre itself carries the island's oldest lighthouse, near the closest spot on the Isle of Man to mainland Britain.
The Braaid, in the parish of Marown, preserves the remains of an Iron Age roundhouse together with two Viking Age longhouses on the same site, occupied together and surviving until roughly the 11th or 12th century AD. Once thought to be an ancient stone circle, modern excavation showed the large stones actually supported the roundhouse walls. It is cared for by Manx National Heritage with open access.
The Calf of Man is a small island off the south-western tip of the Isle of Man, separated from the main island by the Calf Sound. It has been a bird sanctuary since 1951 and is managed by Manx National Heritage. The island has a long history of habitation and was used as a base by smugglers during the eighteenth century.
The name is Norse. Kalfr in that language means a small island lying against a larger one, and the Calf of Mull is named on the same principle. The older accounts make it the largest of the three small islands belonging to Man, about three miles in circumference, and put the channel at some two furlongs.
The puffins were what visitors wrote about. The Calf was well stored with rabbits, and the puffins bred in the coney-holes, the rabbits quitting their burrows for the season. The birds were reckoned of a very unctuous constitution and were taken in quantity, and there was a saying that if the puffin's nest were not robbed in the Calf of Man they would breed there no longer. The coulterneb puffin, or sea-parrot, frequented the island in large numbers down to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The approach to it is the worst water round the Island. The coast between Spanish Head and the Calf is the most dangerous part of the whole shore, a chain of precipices three to four hundred feet in perpendicular height running almost unbroken from Rushen Bay to the Calf, with sunken rocks besides. The Calf lights were the mark ships made for, and the ballad of one wreck has a brig raise them at five in the afternoon of 14 December and then take the Castletown pier-head light for Douglas.
Two older things belong to it. A fragment of a carved cross, with the cord ornament that borders the Manx crosses, was found at the old chapel on the Calf. And there is a tradition, made into a poem in the Manx Society's Mona Miscellany, that a little ruin on the island was once tenanted by a man who withdrew there in Queen Elizabeth's reign, imposing a solitary life on himself as penance for having killed a beautiful woman in a fit of jealousy.
The Chasms are a network of deep, narrow clefts and sea caves cut into the cliffs of the south coast near Cregneash, formed as thick beds of quartz-arenite sandstone in the Mull Hill Formation fracture and slump toward the sea. The sandstone itself was laid down hundreds of millions of years ago by underwater turbidity currents carrying sand grains into deep water. The offshore sea stack known as the Sugarloaf Rock, visible from the clifftop path between Port St Mary and the Sound, has lent its name to a local café and is a favourite subject for coastal photographers.
The Cloven Stones, standing in a garden on Packhorse Lane in Baldrine, are the remains of a Neolithic/Bronze Age megalithic chambered tomb, named for the tall eastern stone which is split down the middle. The chamber, roughly two metres square with portal stones, would originally have been covered by a cairn; it is protected by Manx National Heritage.
The Old Court House on Main Road was originally built in 1766 at the request of Bishop Thomas Wilson and rebuilt in 1835, becoming the last working rural ecclesiastical courthouse on the Isle of Man, standing on the same plot as the neighbouring Mitre Hotel. Cases continued to be heard here until around 1950, after which the building found new life as a classroom, restaurant and social centre. A smaller structure to the rear served as the courthouse's cell, nicknamed the 'Black Hole', which was said to hold little more than the occasional drunk after fair day.
The Crosh is a location in the parish of Lonan on the Isle of Man. The name derives from the Manx word for cross, and the site may be connected to the ancient practice of summoning the militia by passing a wooden cross from neighbour to neighbour, or to one of the parish's numerous sites of early Christian significance.
The word carried more than one sense. The Manx grammars give crosh as a cross and also as an accident, with the genitive ny groshey. The crosh cuirn, the rowan cross, was the one the fishermen used: on May Eve it was put into every boat, the men travelling miles inland to get the wood, and it was then hidden somewhere in the boat and had to stay there until the following May Eve.
Crosses of stone marked the Island's oldest church sites. The Manx ballad of the bishops says of St German that a cross of stone stands at his feet in his own church at Peel, and St Maughold's Cross still stands at the gate of his churchyard, the reputed sanctuary for criminals in old time and the one relic on the Island carrying the Three Legs.
The Cursing Stone at Raby Keeill is located in the parish of Patrick on the Isle of Man, near the site of an ancient keeill (chapel). Cursing stones are a feature of Celtic tradition, believed to bring misfortune upon those against whom they were turned, and several examples survive at early Christian sites across the Island.
The Devil's Elbow is a hairpin bend on the A4 coast road between Peel and Kirk Michael, in the parish of German, where the road crosses Glion Cam ('winding glen'), a small wooded former-quarry glen between Lower Ballakaighen and Skerrisdale Moar, at about 416 feet above sea level. It was the 9th-milestone landmark on the St John's Short Course used for the first four TT meetings (1907-1910), and it was here, on lap 7 of the 1907 Isle of Man TT, that Rem Fowler crashed at nearly 60 mph after a tyre burst; he remounted, was told by a spectator he still led the twin-cylinder class by 30 minutes, and went on to win. The same bend had earlier featured in the 'Peel Loop' of the Gordon Bennett-era Highland Course car trials (1905-1907).
The Drowning Pool and the Phynnodderee's Pool are located in the parish of Lonan on the Isle of Man. The Phynnodderee is one of the most distinctive creatures of Manx folklore, a hairy, supernatural being said to perform agricultural tasks for farmers but shunning human contact; the pool associated with it in Lonan is traditionally held to be its dwelling place.
The Forge on East Quay, Peel, matches the register entry for 'The Foundry, East Quay', registered as a protected building on 21 September 1987, reflecting the site's former use in metalworking on Peel's working harbourside. No further verifiable history of the building was found.
The Garrison at 5 Castle Street occupies part of a row of houses that, per William Henry Cooper's account, may date back to 17th-century buildings recorded in Daniel King's 1643 drawings of the town, though the row underwent very radical rebuilding in more recent times, including its conversion into the Garrison wine bar. It now operates as a café, continuing Castle Street's long history as a mixed row of shops and dwellings close to Castle Rushen.
The Gate House at Ballasalla railway station was built when the Isle of Man Railway's southern line opened in 1874, originally serving as the crossing-keeper's lodge for the level crossing beside the station. It was extensively altered in 1963 to house the mechanism for the station's mechanical crossing gates, which have since been decommissioned; the original crossing-keeper's house across the road was later demolished and replaced by a private residence. The Gate House itself still stands today and is currently used for storage.
