List of lighthouses in Wales

Major lighthouses of Wales, Smalls Lighthouse not shown.

This is a list of lighthouses in Wales. The list runs anticlockwise from north-east to south-east Wales.[1][2][3]

Active lighthouses

Name Image Location Year built Tower height (in metres) Focal height[a] (in metres) Range (in nautical miles)
Trwyn Du Lighthouse Llangoed
🌍		18382919[4]12[4]
Point Lynas Lighthouse Llaneilian
🌍		18351139[4]18[4]
Skerries Lighthouse Cylch-y-Garn
🌍		17172336[4][5] (white), 26[5] (red)20[4][5] (white), 10[5] (red)
Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse Holyhead, Holyhead
🌍		18731921[4]14[4]
South Stack Lighthouse Isle of Anglesey
🌍		1809[6]28[6]60[4]24[4]
Twr Bach Llanddwyn Island Lighthouse Rhosyr
🌍		18th century512[4]7[4] (white), 4[4] (red)
Bardsey Lighthouse Aberdaron
🌍		18213039[4]26[4]
St Tudwal’s Lighthouse Llanengan, Gwynedd[7]
🌍		1877[8]11[8]46[4]14[4] (white), 10[4] (red)
Strumble Head Lighthouse Pembrokeshire
🌍		19081745[4]26[4]
South Bishop Lighthouse St David's and the Cathedral Close
🌍		18391144[4]16[4]
Smalls Lighthouse Marloes and St Brides
🌍[9]		1861[10]41[10]36[4][5] (white), 33[5] (red)18[4][5] (white), 13[5] (red)
Skokholm Lighthouse Marloes and St Brides
🌍		19161854[4]8[4] (white red)
St. Ann's Head Lighthouse Pembrokeshire
🌍		18411348[4]18[4] (white), 17[4] (red)
Great Castle Head Light St Ishmael's
🌍		1870527[5]5[5] (white), 3[5] (red green)
Little Castle Head Light Pembrokeshire
🌍[11]		2653[5]15[5]
Watwick Point Beacon Pembrokeshire, Dale
🌍		19705080[4]15[4]
West Blockhouse Point Beacons Pembrokeshire
🌍		195714
Caldey Lighthouse Tenby
🌍		18291665[4]13[4] (white), 9[4] (red)
Saundersfoot Lighthouse Pembrokeshire
🌍		1848577
Burry Port Lighthouse Pembrey and Burry Port Town
🌍[12]		18427[4]7[13]
Mumbles Lighthouse Swansea, Mumbles
🌍		17941735[4]15[4]
Porthcawl Lighthouse Porthcawl
🌍		1860910[5]6[5] (white), 4[5] (red green)
Nash Point Lighthouse St Donats
🌍		18313756[4]21[4] (white), 16[4] (red)
Flat Holm Lighthouse Butetown
🌍		17373050[4]15[4] (white), 12[4] (red)
Barry Lighthouse The Vale of Glamorgan
🌍		1890912[5]10[5]
Monkstone Lighthouse The Vale of Glamorgan
🌍		18392313[4]12[4]
East Usk Lighthouse Newport
🌍		18931111[4]11[4] (white), 10[4] (red green)

Inactive lighthouses

Name Image Location Year built Decommissioned Tower height (in metres)
Point of Ayr Lighthouse Llanasa
🌍		184418
Great Orme Lighthouse Gwynedd, Llandudno
🌍		198511
Amlwch Lighthouse Amlwch Community
🌍		1817197211
Holyhead Mail Pier Lighthouse Holyhead, Holyhead
🌍		15
Twr Mawr Llanddwyn Lighthouse Rhosyr
🌍		197510
St. Ann's Head Lighthouse Pembrokeshire
🌍		1844191013
Whiteford Lighthouse Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
🌍		1865192614
Old Nash Point Lighthouse St Donats
🌍		1900s20
West Usk Lighthouse Wentlooge
🌍		192217

See also

Notes

  1. ^ height of the light above water level

References

  1. ^ Douglas Bland Hague (1994). Hughes, Stephen (ed.). Lighthouses of Wales: Their Architecture and Archaeology. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-871184-08-2.
  2. ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Wales". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ List of Lights, Pub. 114: British Isles, English Channel and North Sea (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2015. p. 78.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac 2014. ISBN 978-1-4081-9330-3. OL 32692860M. Wikidata Q25198336.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r NGA List of Lights, Radio Aids and Fog Signals, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Wikidata Q13872896
  6. ^ a b https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/south-stack-lighthouse
  7. ^ https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?id=17928
  8. ^ a b https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/st-tudwals-lighthouse
  9. ^ http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-19407
  10. ^ a b https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/smalls-lighthouse
  11. ^ MarineTraffic, Wikidata Q18518862
  12. ^ https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1556377974
  13. ^ https://msi.nga.mil/queryResults?publications/ngalol/lights-buoys?volume=114&featureNumber=5748&includeRemovals=false&output=html
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