Southwold Lighthouse: The Beacon at the Heart of a Suffolk Town Most lighthouses stand alone — on a cliff, a headland, a remote point of land where the sea has the upper hand. Southwold Lighthouse stands in the middle of a town. Walk along any of the streets radiating...
Cromer Lighthouse: Standing 84 Metres Above the North Sea on the Cromer Ridge There is something quietly astonishing about the numbers at Cromer Lighthouse. The tower itself stands 18 metres tall — modest by lighthouse standards. Yet the light it projects sits 84...
The Old Lighthouse Hunstanton: The Norfolk Beacon That Changed Lighthouse History On St Edmund's Point on the North Norfolk Coast, where the striped cliffs of Hunstanton — banded in layers of red chalk, white chalk and carstone — drop to the beach below and the vast...
St Anthony's Lighthouse: A Private Retreat at the Gate of Falmouth Harbour At the very tip of the Roseland Peninsula, where the estuary of the River Fal opens into the English Channel, St Anthony's Lighthouse has marked the eastern entrance to Falmouth Harbour since...
Start Point Lighthouse: A Beacon on Devon's Sea-Swept Headland Few lighthouses in England occupy so dramatic a position as Start Point. Set on a long, narrow finger of rock that reaches nearly a mile out into the English Channel, this is one of the most exposed...
Anvil Point Lighthouse: A Beacon on Dorset's Jurassic Coast On a headland just south of Swanage, where the cliffs of the Isle of Purbeck drop away to the English Channel, Anvil Point Lighthouse has marked this stretch of the Dorset coast since 1881. It is a squat,...
Pendeen Lighthouse: A Wild Atlantic Beacon on Cornwall's Mining Coast On a granite headland at the far western edge of Cornwall, where the Atlantic crashes against some of the most dramatic cliffs in Britain, Pendeen Lighthouse — known locally as Pendeen Watch — has...
St Catherine's Lighthouse: 700 Years of Light on the Isle of Wight At the southernmost tip of the Isle of Wight, where the chalk and sandstone cliffs face the open English Channel, there has been a guiding light for the best part of seven hundred years. The story...
Lizard Lighthouse: Twin Towers Guarding Britain's Southern Tip At the very bottom of mainland Britain, where the Lizard Peninsula reaches its final point of granite and the English Channel opens out towards the Atlantic, a lighthouse has stood guard for nearly 270...