Toward Point

Toward Point is the southern extremity of the Cowal peninsula, near the village of Toward and six miles south of Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland. There has been a lighthouse here since 1812.

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Lighthouse

Toward Point Lighthouse
Toward Point Lighthouse and Foghorn Building
Location Cowal peninsula
Coordinates
Year first lit 1812
Construction White circular tower
Range 22 nautical miles
Characteristic Fl. W 10sec

Toward Point Lighthouse was completed in 1812. It was built by Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850) for the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust.[1] Two lighthouse keepers' houses were added in the later 1800s. A white building on the foreshore housed the foghorn mechanism, originally a steam engine and then diesel engines. The foghorn was taken out of operation in the 1990s.[2] Today the buildings are a private home and not open to the public.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ "Toward". Undiscovered Scotland. http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunoon/toward/index.html. Retrieved 16 January 2011. 
  2. ^ "Toward Lighthouse". Photographers Resource. http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk/A_heritage/Lighthouses/LG3_Sct/Toward.htm. Retrieved 16 January 2011. 

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