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Tennyson Down to the Needles Lighthouse

We walked to the Needles from the Tennyson monument, raised to the poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, who loved the downs here. 
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O who will o'er the downs with me?
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The cliffs at Alum bay are sandstones and clays, famously of many hues, tipped vertically. They are crumbling as one watches.
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Looking directly down on the beach on a wave cut platform of chalk at the Needles.
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The Needles
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