5487 x 3620 px | 46,5 x 30,6 cm | 18,3 x 12,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
21 août 2025
Lieu:
Freshwater Bay, Isle of White, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Freshwater is a large village and civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The southern, coastal village is Freshwater Bay, named for the adjacent small cove. Freshwater sits at the western end of the region known as the Back of the Wight or the West Wight, a popular tourist area. Freshwater is close to steep chalk cliffs. It was the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke and was the home of Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. Freshwater is famous for its geology and coastal rock formations that have resulted from centuries of coastal erosion. Arch Rock was a well-known local landmark. that collapsed on 25 October 1992.[8] The neighbouring Stag Rock is so named because supposedly a stag leapt to the rock from the cliff to escape during a hunt. Another huge slab fell off the cliff face in 1968, and is now known as the Mermaid Rock. Immediately behind Mermaid Rock lies a small sea cave that cuts several metres into the new cliff. Freshwater's beach is very popular with tourists and locals. It is mostly pebbles, but it is also covered in chalk from the nearby cliffs, which is frequently gathered by tourists as souvenirs. Freshwater features an excellent example of a surviving Victorian Beach hotel, The Albion. It was built around the time Freshwater became well-regarded as a coastal resort and is still popular today. Frequent repair work and repainting are undertaken on the building's seafront exterior walls, due to strong storms which often batter rocks, and other debris, against it. The hills above Freshwater are named after Tennyson. On the nearby Tennyson Down is a Cornish granite cross erected in 1897 in tribute to Tennyson, "by the people of Freshwater, and other friends in England and America." There is also a hill in the area called Hooke Hill, named after Robert Hooke. The Anglican All Saints' Church, Freshwater is one of the oldest churches on the Isle of Wight, and it was listed in the Domesday survey of 1086.
