List of lighthouses in Wales

This is a list of the more significant lighthouses in Wales. The list runs anticlockwise from north-east to south-east Wales.

Grading of sites

The list of lighthouse sites is graded according to historical significance, as follows:

• buildings and/or fittings of international importance: ++++
• buildings and/or fittings of British importance: +++
• buildings and/or fittings of Welsh importance: ++
• buildings and/or fittings of local importance: +

The English and Welsh names of each site are followed by the present and historic county designation and a six-figure Ordnance Survey grid reference.

Historical information on the lighthouses of Wales is collected by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Clwyd (Denbighshire)

• Point of Ayr: Y Parlwr Du (SJ 121853)- decommissioned ++

Gwynedd (Caernarfonshire)

• Great Orme Lighthouse: Penygogarth (SH 756845) -decommissioned 1985, now a hotel +

Gwynedd (Anglesey)

• Trwyn Du Lighthouse (Penmon)(SH 644815) ++
• Point Lynas Lighthouse (SH 479936) +++
• Amlwch lighthouse (SH 452937) ++++
• The Skerries: Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid (SH 268948) +++
• Salt Island,Holyhead: Ynys Halen (SH 256829) +++
• Holyhead Breakwater and Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse (SH 257848) ++
• South Stack(SH 202823) ++
• Llanddwyn Island: Ynys Llanddwyn (SH 385625) +

Gwynedd (Caernarfonshire)

• Bardsey Island: Ynys Enlli (SH 111206) +++
• St Tudwal's West Island, St. Tudwal's Islands: Ynys Tudwal (SH 334252) +

Pembrokeshire

• Strumble Head Lighthouse: Ynys Meicel (SM 892413) ++
• South Bishop Lighthouse: Em-Sger (SM 651226) +++
• Skokholm Lighthouse (SM 729046) ++
• Smalls Lighthouse:Gwales (SM 467089) ++++
• St. Ann's Head Lighthouse (SM 806028) ++
• Front (Lit) Beacon or Mark, Great Castle Head, Milford Haven (SM 847060) +
• Rear (Lit) Beacon, Great Castle Head, Milford Haven (SM 848061) +
• Watwick Point Beacon, Milford Haven (SM 821044)
• West Block House Point Beacons, Milford Haven (SM 818035)
• Caldey Lighthouse: Ynys Byr (SS 143959)
• Saundersfoot, (SN 138047) +

Carmarthenshire

• Burry Port Lighthouse SN 444000) +

West Glamorgan

• Whiteford Lighthouse or Whitford Point Lighthouse: Chwittfordd (SS 443973) ++++
• Mumbles Lighthouse (SS634872) +++
• Swansea Harbour Light, West Pier (SS 6653 9168)
• Swansea Harbour Light, East Pier (SS 666 925)

Mid Glamorgan

• Porthcawl (SS 821763) +
• Nash Point (SS918681 & 921680) +++

South Glamorgan

• Flatholm (ST 222647) +++
• Barry Dock (ST 125665) +

Monmouthshire

• West Usk (ST 311829) +++
• East Usk (ST 330828)

References

• Hague, D. B., Lighthouses of Wales Their Architecture and Archaeology (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, edited by Hughes, S, 1994) ISBN 1-871184-08-8

External links

• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales in English and Welsh

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