Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse
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Uploaded by hellooldchap on Jul 26, 2008
This 1900 built lighthouse doesn't normally receive any sun rays, due to it facting north on a very steep slope. It is not a very nice location on a dark windy drizzly day as I found out a few years back, but on a sunny day, the 45 minute downhill walk from Countisbury car park, and 50 minute uphill walk back very is very pleasant. There are signs up warning people about going on a windy, stormy day.
Unusually the lens rotates anti-clockwise, only 1 of 3 in the UK. From this location it is possible to see other lighthouses- Nash Point, Mumbles, and Flatholm. The land opposite the lighthouse is Wales.
The 'pole' you see just off the headland is an experimental tidal turbine- imagine an upturned wind turbine ( http://www.reuk.co.uk/Worlds-First-Open-Sea-Tidal-Turbine.htm ).
As this was filmed on a windy day (even making my tripod wobble) I have replaced the sound of wind with a tune off a CD I got with the cat food a few years back!
More about the lighthouse can be found at http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/interactive/gallery/lynmouth_foreland.html
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All Comments (11)
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@hellooldchap So it is a tannoy foghorn but it doesn't work anymore. Thanks Hellooldchap!
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good memories for me my friend Ribbie Robertson was PK at the lighthouse l have wriien a feature rekating to his service
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so whats the pole for again?
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Pendeen was designed by 'Sir Thomas Matthews' but TH dont say who designed this one...=|
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i was going to say...from the side, it looks like pendeen...im guessing they were designed by the same people? ill look it up in a second, on the TH site...
but, south foreland's lens rotates anti-clockwise too! or did you only mean the working lighthouses?
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i see what you did there...
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Is that a tannoy foghorn? And if it is, does it still work?
Umpqua1012 5 months ago
@Umpqua1012 Yes and no.
hellooldchap 5 months ago
where are the other two anti-clockwise lenses? is one of them 'south foreland'?
LighthousesUK 2 years ago
Lowestoft and Pendeen.
hellooldchap 2 years ago