Best of Central Scotland
The 8 best lighthouses in Central Scotland
Our curated top 8 lighthouses in Central Scotland, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 53 lighthouses see the full lighthouses index for Central Scotland.
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St. Abbs Lighthouse
St Abb's Head Lighthouse stands on the cliffs at the rocky promontory of St Abb's Head, near the village of St Abbs in Berwickshire. A signal station was established on the cliffs before 1820 and the
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Bell Rock Lighthouse
The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock (also known a
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Barns Ness Lighthouse
Barns Ness Lighthouse is 3.1 miles (5 km) from Dunbar and was constructed by the engineers and brothers David A. Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson, cousins of the novelist Robert Louis Stevens
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Bass Rock Lighthouse
The Bass Rock Lighthouse on Bass Rock is a 20-metre (66 ft) lighthouse, built in 1902 by David Stevenson, who demolished the 13th-century keep, or governor's house, and some other buildings within the
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Longstone Lighthouse
Longstone Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse on Longstone Rock in the outer group of the Farne Islands off the Northumberland Coast, England. Completed in 1826, it was originally called t
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Farne Lighthouse
Farne Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the southern tip of Inner Farne (one of a group of islands off the coast of North Northumberland). Built in the early 19th century, it still functions as a lighthou
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Brownsman Lighthouse
Details NORTH SUNDERLAND BROWNSMAN NU 23 NW Farne Islands 5/171 Cottage and Beacon on Brownsman II Cottage, stump of lighthouse, and beacon. Beacon probably C18, cottage and lighthouse 1810. Dressed s
