From the land it can’t be seen until you are standing high on the cliffs above – and from the sea, of course it is highly visible and a life saver, sending out its instantly recognisable series of flashes to warn ships off the treacherous coastline that forms the North Devon interface between water and solid land.
I’m talking about Hartland Point Lighthouse.
We parked in the car-park, paying our entry fee to cross private land to reach our destination. Then walked across rough ground watching the heavy skies, hoping the storm would not break over us as we climbed. Still we couldn’t see the light house…until we turned the corner and looked down.
There, crouched on the rock face, a beautiful lighthouse – a calm sea and on the horizon a storm gathering.
The lighthouse is for sale.
“Hartland Point lighthouse will be decommissioned following the installation of a more efficient solar powered LED beacon which will continue to ensure that this area of the coastline is adequately marked.. “
Fancy moving?
For this challenge
Boadicea's Chariot 
Oh don’t talk to me about Hartland Quay, point, lighthouse, whatever.
Horror, oh horror!
A million years ago I walked that damned valley for a field course at Easter, wave cut platforms, incised valleys, isostatic readjustment and God knows what else, it pissed with rain for a week, the bogs sucked off one’s boots, and still we went. and went and went, try drawing on wet paper!
The accommodation was insufficiently heated and we were wet and cold for a week.
Came home coughing blood, and in bed for a month, late back for the summer term.
Never been back since, pity it hasn’t fallen in the sea.
Don’t even thing about it! One of the wettest, windiest places in the UK, they couldn’t GIVE me the ff’ing place.
Woe, thrice woe, now that is really a halloween horror!!!!
It was my first husband’s ambition to buy a light-house… he would have loved it!
My first question is always “Where’s the nearest library?”… 🙂
I wouldn’t want to live there so exposed to the elements!
Boadicea… Bideford?
Not too sure they can read in Bideford.