Maughold Head

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For the parish on the Isle of Man, see Maughold (parish).

Coordinates: 54°17′45″N 4°18′34″W / 54.2957°N 4.3094°W

Maughold Head
Maughold Head lighthouse.
Maughold Head Maughold Head shown within the Isle of Man
OS grid reference	SC492917
Parish	Maughold
Sheading	Garff
Crown dependency	Isle of Man
Post town	ISLE OF MAN
Dialling code	01624
Police	Isle of Man
Fire	Isle of Man
Ambulance	Isle of Man
List of places Isle of Man

Maughold Head is the easternmost point of the Isle of Man and the closest point in the Isle of Man to England, being 50 kilometres (31 mi) from St. Bees Head in Cumbria.

Maughold Head lies in the northeast of the island, some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Ramsey, at the southern end of Ramsey Bay.

Maughold Head lighthouse

There is an unmanned lighthouse on the headland built by Charles Alexander Stevenson in 1914. The lighthouse is operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board.

External links

Media related to Maughold Head at Wikimedia Commons

Isle of Man government website about Maughold Head
Northern Lighthouse Board history of the lighthouse

Map sources for Maughold Head

v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board

Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights

The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights

Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights

Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Lighthouse Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights

Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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