Freshwater is a huge village and also civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. Freshwater Bay is a tiny cove on the south shore of the Island which also offers its name to the nearby part of Freshwater. Freshwater sits at the western end of the area called the Rear of the Wight or the West Wight which is a popular visitor location. 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 well-known for its geology as well as coastal rock formations that have arised from centuries well worth of coastal erosion. The "Arch Rock" was a well-known local site that fell down on 25 October 1992. The neighbouring "Stag Rock" is so called because apparently a stag jumped to the rock from the cliff to leave during a hunt. One more huge piece diminished the cliff face in 1968, and also is currently referred to as the "Mermaid Rock". Quickly behind Mermaid Rock lies a small Sea cavern that reduces several metres into the new high cliff.