Garle's "A Driving Tour in the Isle of Wight" is a travel narrative with legends and anecdotes. At Arreton he describes the church, the Jacobean manor, and the Hare and Hounds inn, and then turns to the down above the village.
He writes that there is a legend that Arreton Down is the abode of good fairies, who lead the lost traveller into his right path again. He gives his own guess at the origin: the numerous fairy rings that can be seen on the side of the down.
That is the whole of the tradition in this source. It is a single line from a Edwardian tourist, with no named informant and no story attached, so it is tagged as a bare tradition. The pin is an estimate on the down above Arreton.
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