2015

SY6868 : Bill of Portland: two lighthouses

taken 8 years ago, near to Southwell, Dorset, England

Bill of Portland: two lighthouses
Bill of Portland: two lighthouses
The view from the road as it approaches the Bill, the nearer lighthouse is one of a pair of decommissioned towers (the other a good few hundred yards out of picture to the right), which worked in tandem before the new tower, which we see in the background, was built in 1907.

To the left of the lighthouses is the obelisk, on the very tip of the headland, built in 1844 by Trinity House as a warning of a shelf of rock extending out to sea just below the surface.

The old light pictured is now in use as a bird observatory.

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Geographical Context: Coastal Primary Subject: Lighthouse other tags: Lighthouse Headland Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Galleries: · Tweeted from @geograph_bi in November 2015 Automatic Clusters: · Bird Observatory [32] · Rock [12] · Lighthouse was Built in 1869 [11] · Light [9] · Road [4] ·
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SY6868, 161 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Downer   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 November, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 21 November, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SY 6811 6896 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:31.1730N 2:27.0711W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SY 6829 6918
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Southwest (about 225 degrees)
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