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St. Catherine's Oratory is a medieval lighthouse on St. Catherine's Down. Overlooking the southern coast of the Isle of Wight, the lighthouse was built by Lord of Chale Walter de Godeton and is Britain's only surviving medieval lighthouse. Locally as the ‘Pepperpot’ because of its likeness, the four-story-high stone structure has octagonal exterior walls and a four-sided interior and is all that survives of the oratory built here in 1328. The Pepperpot is part of a series of linked cliff-top monuments known as the Tennyson Heritage Coast, and a lighthouse that was built later can be seen nearby.
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Mottistone Longstone
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Garlic Farm Restaurant
Royal Hotel
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