Watershoot Bay is a bay on the southern most tip of the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It lies to the south-west of the village of Niton. It faces south out into the English Channel

English Channel

The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

, and is one of the smallest and remotest bays of the Isle of Wight with a rocky shoreline about 100m in length. It lies to the west of St. Catherine's Point lighthouse and is surrounded by an area of undulating grassland and scrub owned by the National Trust and known as Knowles Farm

Knowles Farm

Knowles Farm is the name of an area of National Trust land at the southern tip of the Isle of Wight located at St. Catherine's Point. It takes its name from a nearby farm which lies outside the NT area just along the southern edge of it....

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The beach is predominantly rocks

The bay is best accessed from the car park about 300m to the north or from the road that leads to the lighthouse, but will involve a hike over rough terrain

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