St Tudwal’s Lighthouse

St Tudwal's Island West and lighthouse to left

St Tudwal’s Lighthouse on Saint Tudwal's Island West is active, but unstaffed. The site of the lighthouse, which marks the north end of Cardigan Bay, was purchased by Trinity House in 1876 at the sum of £111 and the next year the stone building was complete. It is 10.7 metres (35 ft) tall, with its focal plane (height of light above high water) at 46 metres (151 ft). The main white light has a range of 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) and its red sector light has a shorter range of 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi). It gives 1 white and red flash every 15 seconds, the intensity being 12,000 candelas (candle power).

Automated in 1922, it was one of the earlier lights Trinity House automated. It was electrified in 1995. The lighthouse keepers' cottages are now privately owned and used as a holiday home.

The lighthouse building is Grade II listed, as are the lighthousekeeper's cottage and the perimeter walls.^[1]

References

↑ "St Tudwal’s Lighthouse, Llanengan". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

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

Lighthouses of Trinity House

England	Anvil Point Bamburgh Beachy Head Berry Head Bishop Rock Bull Point Coquet Cromer Crow Point Dungeness Eddystone Farne Flamborough Godrevy Guile Point East Hartland Point Heugh Hill Hilbre Island Hurst Point Lizard Longships Longstone Lowestoft Lundy North Lundy South Lynmouth Foreland Nab Tower Needles North Foreland Pendeen Peninnis Portland Bill Round Island Royal Sovereign St Anthony's St Bees St Catherines Southwold Start Point Tater Du Trevose Head Whitby Wolf Rock

Wales	Bardsey Caldey Island Flatholm Holyhead Monkstone Mumbles Nash Point Point Lynas St Anns Head St Tudwal's Skerries Skokholm Smalls South Bishop South Stack Strumble Head Trwyn Du

Channel Islands & Gibraltar	Alderney Casquets Europa Point Les Hanois Sark

Coordinates: 52°47′55″N 4°28′16″W / 52.79854°N 4.47120°W / 52.79854; -4.47120

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