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Route outline for walk iw101:

Freshwater Bay  -  Watcombe Bay  -  Tennyson Down  -  Tennyson's Monument  -  Highdown Cliffs  -  New Battery  -  Scratchell's Bay  -  Old Battery  -  The Needles  -  Coastguard Cottages  -  West High Down  -  Nodewell Farm  -  Freshwater Bay

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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

The Needles is a row of three 30m high chalk stalks that rise out of the sea off the western end of the Isle of Wight. Originally, there were four stacks (you can clearly see the gap from the viewpoint). The name the Needles comes from this fourth stack, which was needle-shaped & named 'Lot's Wife'. It collapsed into the sea during a ferocious storm in 1764.

The Needles Lighthouse was built in 1859 & has walls 3ft thick. Its light can be seen 17 miles away. It has been fully automated since 1994.

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Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

0 English Mountains

0 Wainwrights

0 English Nuttalls

0 English Deweys

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

0 Marilyns

1 Bridget

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Tennyson Down at 147m (482ft). Tennyson Down is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Tennyson Down is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

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