Noss Head Lighthouse: A North Coast 500 Gem With a World-First Lantern On the Noss Head peninsula three miles north-east of Wick, a lighthouse stands above Sinclairs Bay that is less famous than it deserves to be. When Alan Stevenson designed the lantern room here in...
Mull of Galloway Lighthouse: Scotland's Southernmost Beacon, With Four Countries in View At the very tip of the Rhinns of Galloway — the long, narrow peninsula that stretches south from Stranraer like a finger pointing towards Ireland — Scotland ends at a set of sheer...
Corran Lighthouse Lodge: Britain's First Automated Light, on the Shore of Loch Linnhe Loch Linnhe is a tidal sea loch of the Scottish Highlands — deep, dark blue, its banks rising steeply to the Glencoe mountains on the east and the Ardgour hills on the west. Ben...
Cantick Head Lighthouse: Above Scapa Flow at the Edge of Orkney Scapa Flow is one of the great natural anchorages of the world — a vast, sheltered expanse of water ringed by the Orkney Islands, used as a naval base for centuries and the stage for some of the most...
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: Egypt on the Edge of the British Mainland At the very tip of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula — the westernmost point of the British mainland, further west than any other part of England, Scotland or Wales — a lighthouse built from pink granite and...
Souter Lighthouse: The World's First Electric Beacon on the Tyne Coast In 1871, something happened at a lighthouse on the cliffs between the Tyne and the Wear that changed the science of maritime navigation forever. On 11 January 1871, Souter Lighthouse was switched...
The Old Lighthouse at Dungeness: A Victorian Tower in Britain's Only Desert Dungeness is like nowhere else in Britain. A vast, flat headland of shingle — grey pebbles stretching to every horizon, sparse vegetation clinging to the stones, fishing boats drawn up on the...
North Foreland Lighthouse: The Kent Beacon That Has Shone Since 1499 The Goodwin Sands lie seven miles offshore from the chalk cliffs of North Foreland, and they have been doing what they do for centuries: appearing and disappearing with the tides, drawing ships onto...
Portland Bill Lighthouse: Red Stripes Above the Channel's Most Dangerous Race At the very tip of the Isle of Portland — a great block of Jurassic limestone connected to the Dorset mainland only by the eighteen-mile sweep of Chesil Beach — a red and white striped tower...