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) ++++
- Skerries Lighthouse: Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid (SH 268948) +++
- Holyhead Mail Pier Light, Holyhead: Ynys Halen (SH 256829) +++
- Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse (SH 257848) ++
- South Stack Lighthouse(SH 202823) ++
- Llanddwyn Island Lighthouse: 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
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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