FRESHWATER

watering place in the west of the isle of Wight, on the Yar, 2 miles from Yarmouth. Some distance from the village is Freshwater Bay. Pop. 3,439. Near Freshwater is Farring ford, long the residence of Lord Tennyson. A landmark is High Down, 485 feet high, on which there is a memorial cro to the poet. Part of this is the roperty of the National Trust and s been renamed Tennyson Down.