List of lighthouses in Scotland
This is a list of lighthouses in Scotland. The Northern Lighthouse Board, from which much of the information is derived,[1] are responsible for most lighthouses in Scotland but have handed over responsibility in the major estuaries to the port authorities. Many of the more minor lights are not shown. A lighthouse that is no longer operating is indicated by the date of closure in the operated by column. Where two dates are shown, the lighthouse has been rebuilt.
Nearly all the lighthouses in this list were designed by and most were built by four generations of one family, including Thomas Smith, who was both the stepfather and father-in-law of Robert Stevenson. Robert's sons and grandsons not only built most of the lights, often under the most appalling of conditions, but pioneered many of the improvements in lighting and signalling that cut down the enormous loss of life in shipping around the coasts of Scotland.[2]
The table may be sorted by any column by clicking on the heading.
Lighthouses
Gallery[4]
- Auskerry
- Barns Ness
- Barra Head
- Bell Rock
- Dubh artach
- Duncansby Head
- Elie Ness
- Fidra
- Flannan Isles
- Holy Island, Arran
- Killantringan
- Kinnaird
- Isle of May
- Muckle Flugga
- Mull of Galloway
- Neist Point
- Old Lighthouse, North Ronaldsay
- Outskerries
- Oxcars
- Pentland Skerries
- Pladda
- Rattray Head
- Rubha nan Gall
- Skerryvore
- Southerness
- St Abb's Head
- Sumburgh
- Tarbat Ness
- Optic from Tarbat Ness
- Eilean Trodday Light
- Cape Wrath
See also
References
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- "Lighthouse Library". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- Bathurst, Bella (1999). The Lighthouse Stevensons. Harper Collins. p. xvii.
- Built in 1748 but not lit till 1800
- Lighthouses in Scotland by name