<?xml version="1.0"?> <img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Portland_Billlr.jpg"><h2>Portland Billlr.jpg</h2><strong>Portland Bill</strong><br>Coordinates: 50° 30.82 N 02° 27.30 W<br>First built: 1716 <br><br>Lighthouses have stood on Portland Bill for almost 300 years to guide seafarers through this notorious graveyard for shipping.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Bell_rocklr.jpg"><h2>Bell rocklr.jpg</h2><strong>Bell Rock</strong><br>Coordinates: 56° 26.065N 002° 23.230W <br>Built: 1811<br><br>This lighthouse marks a dangerous reef 12 miles out in the North Sea off Dundee and is the oldest rock lighthouse in the world.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/beachy_headlr.jpg"><h2>beachy headlr.jpg</h2><strong>Beachy Head</strong><br>Coordinates: 50° 44.0 N 00° 14.50 E<br>Built: 1902<br><br>The current lighthouse was built as a replacement for the 19th century lighthouse, which still sits atop the headland, as the fogs that regularly roll across the Sussex Downs used to obscure the lights of the original.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/rathlin_islandlr.jpg"><h2>rathlin islandlr.jpg</h2><strong>Rathlin East</strong><br>Coordinates: 55°18.111 N 006°10.313 W<br>Built: 1856<br><br>This was built 70 years after the Kintyre Lighthouse on the other side of North Channel, the narrow strait that separates Scotland from Northern Ireland, and is perched high above sea level.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Kintyrelr.jpg"><h2>Kintyrelr.jpg</h2><strong>Kintyre</strong><br>Coordinates: 55° 18.626N 005° 48.208W<br>Built: 1788<br><br>This was one of the first lights to be erected by the Commissioners of Northern Lights back in 1788.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Old_Head_of_Kinsale_1lr.jpg"><h2>Old Head of Kinsale 1lr.jpg</h2><strong>Old Head of Kinsale</strong><br>Coordinates: 51°36.287 N 008°32.018 W<br>Built: 1853<br><br>One of the major and most impressive lights of southern Ireland and it marks the entrance to Kinsale Harbour.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Eddystonelr.jpg"><h2>Eddystonelr.jpg</h2><strong>Eddystone</strong><br>Coordinates: 50° 10'.80 N 04° 15'.90W<br>Built: 1882<br><br>There have been four separate lighthouses built here and the original tower, completed in 1698, was the first lighthouse to be built on a small rock in the open sea.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Dungenesslr.jpg"><h2>Dungenesslr.jpg</h2><strong>Dungeness</strong><br>Coordinates: 50° 54.77 N 00° 58.70 E<br>Built: 1961<br><br>The first coal-fired beacon here was privately owned and its owner was authorised by royal patent to collect one penny per tonne by passing ships.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Southwoldlr.jpg"><h2>Southwoldlr.jpg</h2><strong>Southwold</strong><br>Coordinates: 52° 19.60 N 01° 41.00E<br>Built: 1889<br><br>This lighthouse in the middle of town is probably the only lighthouse around our coast with beach huts just below it.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Bishop_Rock_5lr.jpg"><h2>Bishop Rock 5lr.jpg</h2><strong>Bishop Rock</strong><br>Coordinates: 49° 52.3 N 06° 26.7 W <br>Built: 1858<br><br>Located on a small rock ledge four miles west of The Isles of Scilly has been the first or last sight of England for more than 150 years.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/longshipslr.jpg"><h2>longshipslr.jpg</h2><strong>Longships</strong><br>Coordinates: 50° 03.97 N 005° 44.75 W<br>Built: 1795<br><br>In the 1790s the residents of the Cornish coast were more interested in the plunder they could gain from 'wrecking' than actually saving ships from their rocky shores so there were mixed local feelings when this lighthouse was constructed.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Coquet_Islandlr.jpg"><h2>Coquet Islandlr.jpg</h2><strong>Coquet</strong><br>Coordinates: 55° 20.0 N 01° 32.2 W<br>Built: 1841<br><br>The architecture of this lighthouse is unusual wth its white square sandstone tower surrounded by a turreted parapet.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/aran_eeraghlr.jpg"><h2>aran-eeraghlr.jpg</h2><strong>Aran-Eeragh</strong><br>Coordinates: 53°08.909 N 009°51.402 W<br>When built: 1857<br><br>Sited on the cliff tops of the storm-swept Aran Islands, two lights mark the northern and suthern points of the islands.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Farne_islandlh.jpg"><h2>Farne islandlh.jpg</h2><strong>Farne</strong><br>Coordinates: 55° 36.93 N 01° 39.25 W<br>First built: 1673<br><br>The present lighthouse has been here for 200 years and it was converted to a solar power operation in 1996.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/fastnetlr.jpg"><h2>fastnetlr.jpg</h2><strong>Fastnet</strong><br>Coordinates: 51°23.358 N 009°36.178 W<br>Built: 1904<br><br>Completed in 1904, Fastnet is the tallest and widest rock lighthouse tower in Britain and Ireland.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Needleslr.jpg"><h2>Needleslr.jpg</h2><strong>Needles</strong><br>Coordinates: 50° 39.70 N 01° 35.42W<br>Built: 1786<br><br>A petition in 1781 that a light be "kept burning in the nightseason whereby seafaring men and mariners might take notice and avoid danger...and ships and other vessels of war might safely cruise during the night season in the British Channel" resulted in a light being erected on top of the cliffs at the western end of the Isle of Wight.<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2013/03/Skelliglr.jpg"><h2>Skelliglr.jpg</h2><strong>Skellig</strong><br>Coordinates: 51°46.108 N 10°32.519 W<br>Built: 182<br><br>An initial rent of £30 the equivalent of the price of 18-stone of puffin feathers from the rock was agreed when work was started on building the light here in 1821.<br><br>The original feature of Britain and Ireland's most significant lighthouses appeared in the April 2012 issue of MBM.
