Freshwater Bay & Tennyson Down Isle of Wight 1970s

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Freshwater Bay and Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight
• Publisher:  WJ Nigh (Jarrold) KIW374
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  10p orange Machin definitive
• Postmark(s):  Isle of Wight 3 July 1980 Postcode It! slogan postmark
• Sent to:  Burley Avenue, Quarndon, Derbyshire
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Freshwater is a large village and civil parish^[1][2] at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. Freshwater Bay is a small cove on the south coast of the Island which also gives its name to the nearby part of Freshwater.^[3]

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.

The "Arch Rock" was a well-known local landmark^[4] that collapsed on the 25th of October, 1992.^[5] The neighbouring "Stag Rock" is so named because supposedly a stag leaped 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".^[6][7]

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 for Robert Hooke.

All Saints' Church, Freshwater^[8] is one of the oldest churches on the Isle of Wight, and was listed in the Domesday survey of 1086.^[9][10][11] Mark Whatson is the pastor of All Saints, which is an Anglican church^[12] in the Anglican Diocese of Portsmouth. A primary school associated with the church is nearby.^[13] There is a marble memorial commemorating Tennyson in All Saints Church. Tennyson's wife Emily and other family members are buried in the church cemetery. The church is also the site of a memorial to Tennyson's son, Lionel Tennyson, who died of malaria in 1886.