Pilot the Isle of Wight: The Needles to St Catherine’s Point

Navigational tips and beauty spots around the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight.

The Needs to St Catherines Point

Pepper Pot

Lighthouse built in the 14th Century. Photo: Peter Bruce

Godeton had plundered wine from the wreck of the St Marie de Bayonne in Chale Bay, bound for a monastery in Picardy, in 1313. He was tried in Southampton, found guilty and fined. However the Church court also found him guilty and threatened to excommunicate him unless he built a lighthouse. Godeton died in 1327 but the light, with an attendant chapel, was built. It’s the second oldest medieval lighthouse after Dover’s.

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. The Needles
  3. 3. Rounding the Needles
  4. 4. Scratchell's Bay
  5. 5. Scratchell's Bay to Freshwater
  6. 6. Sir Robert Holmes
  7. 7. Frenchman's Hole
  8. 8. Watcombe Bay
  9. 9. War Knight
  10. 10. Freshwater Bay
  11. 11. Back of the Wight
  12. 12. Sirenia
  13. 13. Landslips
  14. 14. St Catherine's Point
  15. 15. Pepper Pot
  16. 16. Rocken End
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