Bamburgh Lighthouse
| Bamburgh Lighthouse | |
 Bamburgh Lighthouse | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NU174359 |
| Location: | 55°36’60"N, 1°43’27"W |
| Characteristics | |
| Height: | 30 feet |
| Tower shape: | parallelepiped building with lantern on the roof |
| Tower marking: | white building, black lantern |
| Light: | Oc (2) WRG 8s. |
| Intensity: | 7,140 candela |
| Focal height: | 41 feet |
| Range: | white: 14 nautical miles red and green: 11 nautical miles |
| Admiralty No.: | A2810 |
| History | |
| Built 1910 | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Trinity House |
Bamburgh Lighthouse stands on Black Rock Point, on the coast of Northumberland, by Bamburgh.
The lighthouse was built here by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands. It was extensively modernised in 1975 and is now monitored from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre in Harwich. Routine maintenance is carried out by a local attendant.
Bamburgh is the most northerly land-based lighthouse operated by Trinity House: those beyond Northumberland are in the hands of the Northern Lighthouse Board.[1]
When originally built, the lamp was mounted on a skeletal steel tower (the footprint of which can still be seen within the compound) which stood alongside the white building which housed an acetylene plant to power the lamp.[2] (A similar arrangement can be seen today at Peninnis Lighthouse.) During electrification in 1975 the tower was removed, and the lantern was placed instead on top of the (now redundant) acetylene building. Keepers' accommodation has never been needed, as the light was automated from the start.
References
| Lighthouses of Trinity House |
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Great Britain: |
| Channel Islands and Gibraltar: Casquets • Europa Point • Les Hanois • Sark |