Weavers Point

Weavers Point (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha an Fhigheadair) is a headland to the north of the entrance to Loch Maddy, on the north eastern coastline of North Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland.^[1] There has been a lighthouse on the headland since 1980.^[2]

Lighthouse

Weavers Point Light
Weavers Point Light
Location	North Uist, Scotland
Coordinates	57°36′29.58″N 7°6′0.06″W / 57.6082167°N 7.1000167°W / 57.6082167; -7.1000167Coordinates: 57°36′29.58″N 7°6′0.06″W / 57.6082167°N 7.1000167°W / 57.6082167; -7.1000167
Year first lit	1980
Automated	1980
Focal height	20 metres (66 ft)
Range	7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi)

The light is modern, established in 1980.

Footnotes

↑ "Weaver's Point". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
↑ "Weavers Point Lighthouse". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 15 January 2011.

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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