Whiteford Lighthouse [1]

Whiteford Lighthouse, Whiteford Point, Gower, Wales.

 

This lighthouse was built in 1865 by the Llanelli Harbour and Burry Navigation Commissioners, replacing an earlier wooden piled structure. The lighthouse remained in use until the 1920s.

 

The lighthouse is principally built from a series of cast iron plates which have been bolted together. This particular lighthouse is unusual that the flanges of the panels and the bolts are on the exterior whereas normally cast iron lighthouses are bolted together on the inside. Internally the lighthouse is lined with brick, two rooms below the lantern served as accommodation and stores. A pitched stone apron surrounds the base of the lighthouse, The apron is being eroded by the sea, which is also undermining the base of the tower.

This is the one of a small number of surviving cast iron lighthouses in the United Kingdom and the only to be swept by the waves.

 

The lighthouse stands to a height of about 15 metres and stands in around 6 metres of water at high tide. The base of the lighthouse can be accessed on foot as low tide.

 

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteford_Lighthouse

 

Grid Reference: SS 443 972

 

Kite Aerial Photograph

 

28 April 2018

 

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