St John's Point Lighthouse: The Yellow-Banded Giant of County Down In Van Morrison's song "Coney Island," the lighthouse at St John's Point is mentioned in a list of the things that make the Irish coast of County Down feel like home — somewhere between the Mourne...
Blackhead Lighthouse: The Titanic Passed Here, and You Can Stay the Night In April 1912, RMS Titanic — built at Harland and Wolff's yards on Queen's Island in Belfast, launched in 1911 and fitted out over the following months — left Belfast Lough for the last time on...
St Ann's Head Lighthouse: The Last Shore-Based Light in Pembrokeshire, on the Tudor Coast In August 1485, a small fleet carrying Henry Tudor — exiled pretender to the English throne — rounded this headland and landed at Mill Bay, a sheltered cove just to the north of...
Point Lynas Lighthouse: A Castle on the Cliffs of North Wales, Guiding Liverpool's Ships Since 1766 Most lighthouses are towers. Point Lynas is not. The lighthouse that stands on the rocky headland at the north-east corner of Anglesey is a low, castellated structure...
North Ronaldsay Lighthouse: The UK's Tallest, Above the Island of the Seaweed Sheep Around the shoreline of North Ronaldsay — the northernmost and most isolated of the Orkney Islands — runs a drystone wall several miles long called the Sheep Dyke. Its purpose is...
Rua Reidh Lighthouse: Wild Wester Ross Beacon Above Loch Ewe's WWII Convoys Three miles beyond the last village on a private track across the moorland of Wester Ross, where the headland of Rubha Rèidh — the Gaelic for flat headland — reaches out into the Minch, a...
Stoer Lighthouse: On Scotland's NC500, Two Miles From the Old Man of Stoer Two miles north of Stoer Lighthouse, the cliff edge drops away and the Old Man of Stoer rises from the sea — a 62-metre sandstone stack, sheer on all sides, standing apart from the headland as...
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse: Robert Stevenson's 1821 Beacon on Shetland's Puffin Cliffs At the southernmost tip of Mainland Shetland, where the North Sea and the Atlantic meet in the turbulent tidal race known as the Sumburgh Roost, Robert Stevenson — the founder of the...
Nash Point Lighthouse: The Last Light in Wales to See Its Keeper Go In 1998, the keeper at Nash Point Lighthouse on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast turned off the oil lamps for the last time, handed the keys to Trinity House and walked away, making Nash Point the last...