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Moon Phase Calendar. Why The Discrepancy? When Is The Earliest Sunrise? Recipe Rating Recipe Rating. Newest Oldest Most Voted. To the west, a row of headlands that knits West Somerset to North Devon is lined up for inspection while the rocks of Hurlstone Point teeter their way down to the sweep of Porlock Bay. Perhaps try a pie at the 13th century Ship Inn. The ski-board contours of Tennyson Down that sweep along the south-west of the Isle of Wight are a magnificent spot to watch the sunset.

At its zenith, by the granite cross dedicated to Tennyson, the down is just m above sea level but the unrelenting ascent can leave you feeling every metre of the climb. Catch your breath and take in a truly magnificent view: not just the chalk Needles but a vast sweep of Hampshire across the Solent and Dorset curving away towards the setting sun.

Zennor Head is the perfect place to enjoy a winter sunset: an exposed headland that provides that exposed, ends-of-the nation experience. With good weather you can take in the changing colours of the shallow waters of Pendour Cove as they sublimate from aquamarine to ink-black. Look out for solitary stonechats flitting around the gorse which may even be in flower while looking east you may catch a kestrel — sometimes up to three synchronised individuals — hovering in search of dinner.

The elemental outcrop of Strumble Head pokes out further west. Right by the car park, pop into the Old Sailor pub where excellent food includes catches of the day such as lobster. Sign up to receive our newsletter! Your subscription will end shortly. Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your access to the most informative and considered journalism in the UK.

Accessibility Links Skip to content. Menu Close. Most clocks run on the idea that a day is exactly 24 hours. Technically, a day is the duration between one solar noon , the time of the day when the Sun is at the highest point in the sky, to the next.

The varying speed of apparent or true solar time compared to mean solar time during the year. The length of a solar day, as this duration is called, is not exactly 24 hours long. It varies throughout the year because of the elliptical shape of Earth's orbit and its axial tilt. It is longer than 24 hours around the summer and winter solstices and shorter than 24 hours around the spring vernal and fall autumnal equinoxes.