Lighthouse Tour challenge Series

[~Martin~]

Has anyone done this in the UK, if so any advice on ones to avoid? I'm going to have a bash at it next year so spending these dark evenings researching.

http://www.ironbutt.com/themerides/lighthouse/index.html

 

[Kim Leeson]

Happy holidays Martin,

I've already spent many dark evenings doing this research! Below is a link I used to find them, other links are out there.

I used 'lightbulbs' couldn't find a Lighthouse Icon!

Also, a screenshot of the ones I researched, only got England and Wales done, along with my first leg plotted! Which has yet to be travelled.

If you want the gpx file 'pm' me, otherwise enjoy the research, I did, I googled everyone, some are easy, some not so.

http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk/A_heritage/Lighthouses/sets/e_w_list.htm

 

[Kim Leeson]

Has anyone done this in the UK, if so any advice on ones to avoid? I'm going to have a bash at it next year so spending these dark evenings researching.

http://www.ironbutt.com/themerides/lighthouse/index.html

Afraid I can't advise on which to avoid, but if you google them you will be able to see the remote ones and one's off-shore.

 

[GSears]

BBT 2020 has a high proportion of lighthouses. Could double up.

 

[~Martin~]

Kim, is there anything you are not plotting/planning

Ive found lots of source material, but quite a lot of it is incomplete. Some of them look like a long walk from where you park up and I never realised there may be more than one Lighthouse in an area, for example the three at South Killinghome in Lincolnshire.

 

[Kim Leeson]

Some are disused/decommissioned, but a lot of history in those lighthouses...I've always been an admirer of them for what they did/do for our maritime friends who bring us our lovely cars/phones/crap

The life of a Lighthouse Keeper is/was (not so many any more) a lonely job, cut-off from the basics we enjoy on a daily basis, supply's had to airlifted in if weather was favourable...I'm rambling...

As Gordon says a lot of lighthouses's in this year's 2020 BBT locations, you could make a lovely trip out of them...now when do I retire!!

 

[GSears]

Not soon enough, was the reply.

 

[GarminDave]

Why are they all on the coast?

 

[Kim Leeson]

Why are they all on the coast?

Because boats don't work too well on dry land...just a hunch.

 

[GarminDave]

Because boats don't work too well on dry land...just a hunch.

Eeee, never. All those years in the Merchant Navy, I always wondered why there were searchlights on us!

This has been my attempt at humour! Sorry.

 

[Megabuck]

Why are they all on the coast?

They tried them inland, but they soon realised that it just didn't look right - the scenery on the coast gives a far better backdrop.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Safari Ferg]

There used to be quite a few inland on airfields, where they were also known as Aviation Beacons; of more use when airborne navigation was in its infancy or currently in parts of the 3rd World where radar may not function.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodrome_beacon

 

[GSears]

Still one at RAF Waddington

 

[~Martin~]

RAF Cranwell has the furthest lighthouse from the sea in the UK, and the only RAF station to have a permanent lighthouse on its grounds.

 

[Ahamay]

And Northolt

 

[GarminDave]

See perhaps I'm not as daft as I look!

 

[Ahamay]

Well you couldn't be that daft.