| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Watershoot Bay |
| Civil Parish: | Niton and Whitwell |
| Coordinates: | 50.58°N -1.3°W |
| Static Image Name: | File:Watershoot Bay.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Watershoot Bay looking to the East |
| Map Type: | Isle of Wight |
| Region: | South East England |
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Watershoot Bay is a bay on the southernmost tip of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the south-west of the village of Niton. It faces south out into the English Channel, and is one of the smallest and remotest bays of the Isle of Wight with a rocky shoreline only around in length. It lies to the west of St. Catherine's Point lighthouse and is surrounded by a 170-acre area of undulating grassland and scrub owned by the National Trust and known as Knowles Farm.[1]
The beach is composed predominantly of sandstone, chalk and chert boulders (which are around 90 to 110 million years old) which are rich in fossils.[2]
The bay is best accessed from the car park about to the north or from the road that leads to the lighthouse but will involve a hike over rough terrain.
The name of the bay may have come from that of a sloop lost there in 1755.[3] The bay was home to a boathouse from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century.[4]