Towers & lighthouses in United Kingdom
Detourmap maps 278 towers & lighthouses worth the detour in United Kingdom — lighthouses and lookout towers. The best known is Big Ben. The 150 most notable are listed here; the rest are on the map. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
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Big Ben
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Iconic
Tower of the Palace of Westminster, London containing the bell Big Ben
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Broadway Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Notable
Folly tower in Broadway, Wychavon, Worcestershire, England, UK
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BT Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Notable
Communications tower located in Fitzrovia, London, England, UK
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Blackpool Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Notable
Observation tower and entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Victoria Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Notable
Tallest tower of the Palace of Westminster in London, England
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ArcelorMittal Orbit
Towers & lighthouses · 21st century · Notable
Sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London
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Eddystone Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Notable
Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, England
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Spinnaker Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 21st century · Notable
Sightseeing tower in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
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Bell Rock Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Notable
Lighthouse off the coast of Angus, Scotland, UK
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Flannan Isles Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland
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Broch of Mousa
Towers & lighthouses · Hidden gem
Tallest preserved example of an Iron Age broch or round tower
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King Alfred's Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Folly tower in Somerset, England, UK
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Lizard Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
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Ardnamurchan Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, built in 1849
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Watkin's Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Partially completed iron lattice tower in London, England
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Emley Moor transmitting station
Towers & lighthouses · Hidden gem
Telecommunications and broadcasting facility in Yorkshire, England, UK
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Needles Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at the Needles, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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Godrevy Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK
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House in the Clouds
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Folly on top of a former water tower, in Thorpeness, Suffolk, England, UK
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Jewel Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 14th century · Hidden gem
Medieval tower in Westminster, London, England, UK
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Hurst Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on the Solent, in Hampshire, England, UK
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Portland Bill Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England, UK
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Longships Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Cornwall, England
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Brighton i360
Towers & lighthouses · 21st century · Hidden gem
Observation tower in Brighton, East Sussex
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Hartland Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Hartland, Torridge, Devon, England, UK
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Dunnet Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Active 19th century lighthouse that stands on Dunnet Head, Scotland
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Trwyn Du Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Penmon, Anglesey, Wales
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Corsewall Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Corsewall Point, Kirkcolm near Stranraer in the region of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland
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Point Lynas Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Anglesey, Wales; on Point Lynas, 1km approx N of Llaneilian
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Smalls Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse near Pembrokeshire, Wales
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Radio City Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Radio and observation tower in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Clock tower in Birmingham, United Kingdom
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HM Fort Roughs
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Maunsell navy fort off the coasts of Suffolk and Essex, United Kingdom
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Scrabo Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Tower in County Down, Northern Ireland
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Start Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Stokenham, South Hams, Devon, England, UK
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Longstone Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on one of the Farne Islands, England
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Lismore Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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Cromer Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Cromer, North Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK
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Muckle Flugga Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · Hidden gem
Lighthouse built 1858 in Shetland Islands
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Flamborough Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
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Beachy Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK
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Farne Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in North Sunderland, Northumberland, England, UK
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South Stack Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on South Stack, in Anglesey, Wales
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Glasgow Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 21st century · Hidden gem
Observation tower in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK
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OXO Tower
Towers & lighthouses · Hidden gem
Building with a prominent tower on the south bank of the River Thames in London
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Mull of Galloway Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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St Anthony's Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Gerrans, Cornwall, England, UK
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Trevose Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in St. Merryn, Cornwall, England, UK
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Tater Du Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Cornwall, England
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Barra Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
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Coquet Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse and attached buildings in Hauxley, England
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Flat Holm Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in City and County of Cardiff. Wales; situated on a small promontory at the SE corner of the island, within the bank-and d…
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Lowestoft Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Waveney, Suffolk, England, UK
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Anvil Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Swanage, Dorset, England, UK
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Ailsa Craig Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Active 19th century lighthouse located on Ailsa Craig, Scotland
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Point of Ayr Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Point of Ayr, near Talacre, Flintshire, Wales
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Buchan Ness Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
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Bass Rock Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on Bass Rock, Scotland
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Wolf Rock Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Cornwall, England
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Lundy North Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Torridge, Devon, England, UK
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Lundy South Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Torridge, Devon, England, UK
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Round Island Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Tresco, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England, UK
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Cabot Tower
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Grade II listed tower in Bristol, England
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Chesterton Windmill
Towers & lighthouses · 17th century · Hidden gem
Windmill in Chesterton, Warwickshire, England, UK
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Tarbat Ness Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on the East coast of Scotland
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Black Nore Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Somerset, England, UK
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Killantringan Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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Ruvaal Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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Chanonry Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Highland, Scotland, UK
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Girdleness Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Southend, Argyll, Scotland
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Bamburgh Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Black Rocks Point, Bamburgh, England
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Belle Tout lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Decommissioned lighthouse at Beachy Head, East Sussex, England, UK
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Crow Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in North Devon, England
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Peninnis Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in St Mary's, England
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Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse near Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, UK
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Dennis Head Old Beacon
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Ruined lighthouse on the island of North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland
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Southwold lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Southwold, Waveney, Suffolk, England, UK
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St. Mary's Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
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Bardsey Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on Bardsey Island, in Gwynedd, Wales
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Rampside Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Grade II listed lighthouse in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK
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Whiteford Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Whiteford Point, Gower Peninsula, Swansea, Wales, UK
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Esha Ness Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on the Northmavine peninsula in the north-west of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
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Happisburgh Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Happisburgh on the North Norfolk coast, East Anglia, England
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Sumburgh Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Sumburgh Head on the mainland of Shetland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
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Fidra Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
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Eilean Glas Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on the island of Scalpay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
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Cape Wrath Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse located at the most North-Westerly point of the British mainland, in Sutherland, Scotland
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Hilbre Island Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on Hilbre Island, England
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Neist Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Highland, Scotland, UK
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Orfordness Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Demolished lighthouse in Orford, East Suffolk, England, UK
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Skerries Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on The Skerries, Anglesey, Wales
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Nash Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in St Donats, Wales; situated on the cliff-top at Nash Point in a walled enclosure
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New Brighton Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Grade II* listed lighthouse in New Brighton, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
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North Foreland Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 17th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at North Foreland, England
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Leasowe Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
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Twr Mawr Llanddwyn Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Anglesey, Wales; in an elevated position at the SW extremity of Llanddwyn Island
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Bishop Rock Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on its islet in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Isles of Scilly, England
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Beckford's Tower and Museum
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Architectural folly and museum on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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Heckington Windmill
Towers & lighthouses · Hidden gem
Grade I listed windmill in Heckington, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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St. Abbs Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Berwickshire, Scotland
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Portland Breakwater Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
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Noss Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse near Wick in Caithness in the Highland council area of Scotland
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Auskerry Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
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Wyre Light
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse at Fleetwood, Lancashire, England, UK
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Inchkeith Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Fife, Scotland, UK
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Donaghadee lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Northern Ireland
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Walney Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Cumbria, England, UK
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Whitby Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Grade II listed lighthouse in Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Stoer Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Sutherland, Scotland
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Skerryvore Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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Old Monach Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on Shillay, Monach Islands, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
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St Agnes Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 17th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Cornwall, England, UK
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Rua Reidh Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse near the entrance to Loch Ewe in Wester Ross, Scotland
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South Bishop Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Pembrokeshire, Wales; situated on South Bishop Rock, the southernmost of Bishops and Clerks rocky islands, 4.8km to the…
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Southerness lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 18th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
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St Catherine's Oratory
Towers & lighthouses · 14th century · Hidden gem
Medieval lighthouse on the Isle of Wight, England, UK
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St Andrew's Church
Towers & lighthouses · 14th century · Hidden gem
Church in Burnham-on-Sea, Sedgemoor, England
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Start Point Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse on Sanday, in Orkney, Scotland
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Rona Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Highland, Scotland, UK
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Burry Port Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Carmarthenshire, Wales; on the W breakwater of Burry Port harbour
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Caldey Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Pembrokeshire, Wales; on the S side of Caldey Island, 0.5km approx S of the Abbey
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Strumble Head Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 20th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Pembrokeshire, Wales; situated on Ynys Meicel, and reached via a bridge across the narrow tidal strait
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Bressay Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
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Butt of Lewis Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
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Hoy Sound High Light
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
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Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse
Towers & lighthouses · 19th century · Hidden gem
Lighthouse in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
