Best of Scottish Highlands
The 20 best lighthouses in Scottish Highlands
Our curated top 20 lighthouses in Scottish Highlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 136 lighthouses see the full lighthouses index for Scottish Highlands.
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Toward Point Lighthouse
Toward Point Lighthouse is situated in the south of the Cowal Peninsula, near the village of Toward, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It marks the point where Loch Striven meets the Firth of Clyde. There ha
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Ruvaal Lighthouse
The Ruvaal, Rhuvaal, or Rubh'a' Mhàil Lighthouse is a listed 19th-century lighthouse located at the north-eastern end of the island of Islay, in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The
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Noss Head Lighthouse
The Noss Head Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse near Wick in Caithness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located at the end of Noss Head, a peninsula on the north-west coas
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Rubh' an Eun Lighthouse
Glencallum Bay Lighthouse is a lighthouse on a point on the northernmost side of Glencallum Bay on the Isle of Bute. Its Gaelic name is the Rubh' An Eun which means the point of the birds. The lightho
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Girdleness Lighthouse
Girdle Ness Lighthouse (or Girdleness Lighthouse) is situated near Torry Battery on the Girdle Ness peninsula just south of the entrance to Aberdeen's harbour, in Scotland. It is an active light, mana
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Flannan Isles Lighthouse
Flannan Isles Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the highest point on Eilean Mòr, one of the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. In 1900, its three keepers disappeared in
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Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
Covesea Skerries Lighthouse, originally belonging to the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), is built on top of a small headland on the south coast of the Moray Firth at Covesea, near Lossiemouth, Moray,
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Kinnaird Head Lighthouse
There are two lighthouses located on Kinnaird Head, in Fraserburgh, Scotland: a historical one built in a converted castle; and its modern replacement, built in 1991. The original lighthouse now forms
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Ardnamurchan Lighthouse
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse is a listed 19th century lighthouse, located on Ardnamurchan Point in Lochaber part of the Highland council area of Scotland. The lighthouse with its 36-metre-tall (118 ft), pi
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Eilean Glas Lighthouse
Eilean Glas Lighthouse is on the east coast of the island of Scalpay in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It was one of the original four lights commissioned by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights,
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Buchan Ness Lighthouse
Buchan Ness lighthouse is a lighthouse in Boddam, Aberdeenshire. Scotland. The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed
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Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse
Rubha nan Gall lighthouse is located north of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull beside the Sound of Mull. The name means "Stranger's Point" in Scottish Gaelic. It was built in 1857 by David and Thomas Ste
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Barra Head Lighthouse
Barra Head Lighthouse on Barra Head identifies the southern entrance to The Minch, roughly halfway between the Eilean Glas and Rinns of Islay lighthouses. The 58-foot (18-metre) stone tower, built in
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Neist Point Lighthouse
Neist Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Neist Point on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It was designed by David Alan Stevenson and was first lit on 1 November 1909. An aerial cableway was used
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Corran Point Lighthouse
Corran Point Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located at Corran Point on the west side of the Narrows of Loch Linnhe, in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It was built in 1860 as a project by Thomas Ste
