Freshwater
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 41 ′ N , 1 ° 31 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 5369 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | FRESHWATER | ||
| ZIP code section | PO40 9 | ||
| prefix | 01983 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| ONS code | 00MW | ||
| Website: http://www.freshwater-parish.org.uk/ | |||
Freshwater is a sprawling village and civil parish on the west coast of the Isle of Wight , England . Freshwater Bay is a small bay southeast of the village on the western south coast of the island, which is also the namesake of a district of Freshwater. The village lies west in a region known as the Back of Wight or West Wight, which is a popular recreational area. In 2011 there were 5,369 inhabitants.
The west coast of Freshwater is lined with steep chalk cliffs . The polymath Robert Hooke was born there. The court poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, lived here .
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history
During excavations on Moons Hill in 1890, Robert Walker discovered two structures that were unusual for the area, described as ice cellars and pottery ovens or crematoriums, and concluded that there were Phoenician settlements . Chemical analyzes have shown that it is most likely limestone kilns.
At the mouth of the Western Yar there is evidence of a Roman port. In 530 the island fell to an alliance of the Saxons and Jutes . After the Norman conquest of England , William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford , gave the Church of All Saints and the tithe of the Norman Abbey of La Vieille-Lyre to the Saxons between 1066 and 1071, the year he died . In 1414 the Crown confiscated all foreign abbeys. King James VI and I. gave the Freshwater ward to the Bishop of Lincoln, John Williams, in 1623.
The Freshwater Ward originally consisted of five boroughs, also known as "Tuns": Norton, Sutton, Easton, Weston and Middleton. These parishes still exist today, but Sutton was renamed Freshwater Gate and then Freshwater Bay. The first parish council meeting was held on December 31, 1894.
Attractions
Sacred buildings
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One of the oldest churches on the Isle of Wight is the Anglican All Saints' Church in Freshwater, with Mark Whatson as pastor. It was already mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It belongs to the Anglican Diocese of Portsmouth. The nearby elementary school belongs to the church. In memory of Tennyson, a marble memorial was erected in the church, and his son Lionel Tennyson, who died of malaria in 1886, was also given a memorial here. Tennyson's family was buried in the church cemetery.
Tennyson's son, Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson , donated land for a new church. His wife Audrey suggested the name St. Agnes' Church, which was consecrated on August 12, 1908. It is the only thatched church on the Isle of Wight.
Freshwater, Church of All Saints
St. Agnes Church
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Secular buildings
Freshwater had the largest station on the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, which operated from July 20, 1889 to September 21, 1953. A supermarket and a garden center have now been set up in the station building.
Freshwater has a Victorian beachfront hotel, The Albion . It was currently being built when the village became popular as a seaside resort. Even today, the village is still a popular bathing beach. The hotel is often damaged by beach stones because of the severe storms, and the facades often have to be repaired.
The ruins of Fort Redoubt, also called Fort Freshwater or Freshwater Redoubt, still stand on a rocky promontory west of Freshwater Bay. It was built in 1855-1856 to protect Freshwater Bay, part of the Palmerston Forts and was used until the early 20th century. It was bought by the military in 1928. Today it is part of a private property, in the vicinity of which holiday apartments were built. An easy path through the cliffs leads from the beach to the fort, and a large part of the wrought-iron stairs has been torn down due to repeated weather-related damage.
Dimbola Lodge was the residence of Julia Margaret Cameron and is now a photography museum. There is a tea shop and a book shop. A statue of Jimi Hendrix can be found at Dimbola Lodge.
In the neighborhood between Freshwater Gate and Alum Bay, near Farringford is the home of Lord Tennyson , today's Farringford Hotel.
Albion Beach Hotel
Fort Redoubt
Dimbola Lodge
Lord Tennyson's home
Farringford Hotel
Personalities
Renowned scientist Robert Hooke was born in Freshwater in 1635. His father, John Hooke, was vicar of the All Saints Church. When he died in 1648, Hooke left Freshwater for London, where he studied with the portraitist Peter Lely . He then went to Westminster School and eventually Oxford.
George Morland (1763–1804) was a famous painter who lived in a structure called Cabin in Freshwater around 1800.
The British poet Alfred Tennyson lived in the nearby Farringford House on the road to Alum Bay until his death in 1892 . He rented it from 1853 and bought it in 1856. There he felt annoyed by the many fans, so in 1869 he went to Aldworth , a mansion on a hill known as Blackdown , between Lurgashall and Fernhurst, about 2 km south from Haslemere , West Sussex . Since then he has used Farringford as a winter residence.
Pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron lived at Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater from 1860 to 1875.
In 1960 Diki Tsering, the mother of the 14th Dalai Lama , spent six weeks in Basil John Gould's (1883–1956) inn with his widow Cecily. She was there to recover from an operation on a benign pharyngeal polyp at St. Mary's Hospital in London.
Vivian Fuchs was born on February 11, 1908 in Freshwater. As a British explorer, he was a member of the first crossing of Antarctica in 1958.
Rober Hooke memorial
Nature and surroundings
Freshwater is famous for its geology and coastal rock formations resulting from centuries of coastal erosion . The Arch Rock was a very well known feature that broke off on October 25, 1992. The neighboring Stag Rock is named after a deer leap from the cliffs onto the rocks that escaped during the hunt. Another large slab of rock broke off the cliffs in 1968 and is now known as Mermaid Rock . Immediately behind it is a small sea grotto several meters wide.
The sandy beach of Freshwater is very popular and partly covered with chalk from the nearby cliffs, which tourists like to take with them as souvenirs.
The hills above Freshwater are named after Tennyson. In his honor, a cross of Cornish granite was erected on Tennyson Down in 1897 by villagers and friends from England and the United States . Nearby Hooke Hill was named after Robert Hooke.
The Western Yar rises near Freshwater and flows north of Yarmouth. The Freshwater Marshes are a Site of Special Scientific Interest , mostly part of the Afton Marshes Nature Reserve .
Afton Down is a hill on Freshwater Bay, on the western side of the Isle of Wight . The famous Isle of Wight Festival took place there.
Mermaid skirt
Tennyson Memorial
traffic
Freshwater is connected to the 7 and 12 Southern Vectis buses to Totland, Yarmouth and Newport. In summer open-top buses run by "The Needles Tour" and the tourism company "Island Coaster" to Freshwater Bay. Freshwater is on the Isle of Wight Coastal Path, a 107 km walk around the Isle of Wight.
Organizations
The Freshwater Village Association was founded by the villagers in November 2006 with the aim of preserving the identity of Freshwater as a village. On July 2, 1984, the Freshwater Bay Residents' Association was formed to promote community development.
Freshwater Independent Lifeboat is an independent rescue organization based in Freshwater and operates the Freshwater Bay Lifeboat Station on Freshwater Bay's promenade. Since separating from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , the two lifeboats have been received from public donations and sales proceeds. It hosts the annual Freshwater and Totland Carnival.
Freshwater is the seat of the Robert Hooke Society , which created the Hooke Trail in the region around the Robert Hooke site. Every two months the members hold meetings in the Inselplanetarium in Fort Victoria, on March 3rd a commemorative brunch on the anniversary of his death (1703) and a week-long celebration on his birthday (July 28th 1635).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics. Office for National Statistics, 2011, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ What are the Moons Hill Structures? Isle of Wight History Center, December 2000, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Parish History. Freshwater Parish Council, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Local History. Freshwater Bay Residents' Association, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Steve Noyes: Freshwater, All Saints. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
- ^ All Saints C of E Primary School. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ St. Agnes Church. Visit Isle of Wight, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Nick Catford: Station Name: Freshwater. Disused Stations, January 3, 2014, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ^ A Chronology of Robert Hooke. Westminster School, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ^ Tennyson on the Isle of Wight. Farringford Estate, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ^ Freshwater Marshes SSSI. Natural England, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Afton Marshes. Natural England, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Map of Afton Marsh. MAGIC, Natural England, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ About Us. (No longer available online.) Freshwater Village Association, archived from the original on March 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About Us. Freshwater Bay Residents' Association, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ^ Freshwater Independent Lifeboat. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
