List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses

This is a list of the currently operational lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). The list is divided by geographical location, and then by whether the lighthouses are classed by the NLB as a 'major lighthouse' or a 'minor light'. Former NLB lighthouses now disposed of are not included in the list.

Scotland (except principal island groups)

Major lighthouses

Name	Area	Built
Ailsa Craig Lighthouse	South Ayrshire	1886
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse	Highland	1849
Bell Rock Lighthouse	Angus	1810
Buchan Ness Lighthouse	Boddam	1827^[1]
Cape Wrath Lighthouse	Highland	1828^[2]
Chanonry Lighthouse	Chanonry Point	1846^[3]
Corsewall Lighthouse	Dumfries and Galloway	1816
Covesea Skerries Lighthouse	Lossiemouth	1846
Crammag Head Lighthouse	Dumfries and Galloway	1913
Davaar Lighthouse	Argyll and Bute	1854^[4]
Duncansby Head Lighthouse	Duncansby Head	1924
Dunnet Head Lighthouse	Dunnet Head	1831^[5]
Fidra Lighthouse	East Lothian^[6]	1885^[7]
Fife Ness Lighthouse	Fife Ness	1975^[8]
Girdleness Lighthouse	Aberdeen	1833^[9]
Holy Isle Inner Lighthouse	North Ayrshire	1877
Holy Isle Outer Lighthouse	North Ayrshire	1905
Inchkeith Lighthouse	Fife	1804^[10]
Isle of May Lighthouse	Fife^[11]	1816^[12]
Kinnaird Head Lighthouses	Kinnaird Head
Mull of Galloway Lighthouse	Mull of Galloway	1830
Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse	Mull of Kintyre, Southend	1788^[13]
North Rona Lighthouse	Outer Hebrides	1984
Noss Head Lighthouse	Highland	1849^[14]
Pladda Lighthouse	North Ayrshire	1790^[15]
Rattray Head lighthouse	Rattray Head	1895^[16]
Rua Reidh Lighthouse	Highland	1912^[17]^[18]
St. Abbs Lighthouse	Berwickshire	1862^[19]
Sanda Island Lighthouse	Argyll and Bute	1850^[20]
Scurdie Ness Lighthouse	Scurdie Ness	1870^[9]
Stoer Head Lighthouse	Stoer Head, Lochinver	1870^[21]
Strathy Point Lighthouse	Highland	1958^[22]
Stroma Lighthouse	Caithness	1890
Sule Skerry Lighthouse	Orkney Islands	1895^[23]
Tarbat Ness Lighthouse	Highland^[24]	1830^[25]

Minor lights

The Hebrides

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

An T-Iasgair
Ardmore
Ardtreck
Bunessan
Cabbage North
Cabbage South
Cairn na Burgh More
Cairns of Coll
Calvay
Canna
Carragh an t'Sruith
Carragh Mhor
Channel Rock (Castlebay)
Crowlin
Drowning Rock
Duart Point
Dubh Sgeir (Castlebay)
Dubh Sgeir (Kerrera)
Dubh Sgeir (Leverburgh)
Dubh Sgeir (Luing)
Dunvegan
Eigg
Eight Metre Rock
Eilean a Chuirn
Eilean Bàn
Eilean nan Gabhar
Eilean Trodday
Eileanan Dubha
Eyre Point
Fladda
Gamhna Gigha
The Garvellachs
Gasay Island
Gasker
Green Island
Grey Rocks
Janes Tower
Kyle Rhea
L2
L2a
Lady Rock
Leverburgh (Front)
Leverburgh (Rear)
Loch Indaal (Rubh an Duin)
McArthur's Head
Milaid Point
Na Cuiltean
Narstay
North Spit Of Kerrera
Ornsay Beacon
Port Ellen Sector
Red Rock
Reisa an T-struith
Ruadh Sgeir
Rubh'a Chruidh
Rubh Glas (Front)
Rubh Glas (Rear)
Rubh Uisenis
Rubha nan Gall
Scalasaig
Sgeir Chruaidh
Sgeir-na-Cailleach
Skervuile
Sleat Point
Vaternish
Weavers Point

Orkney

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

Barrel of Butter
Calf of Eday
Cava
Helliar Holm
Hoxa Head
Lother Rock
Papa Stronsay
Roseness
Ruff Reef
Skerry of Ness
Swona

Shetland

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

Bagi Stack
Balta Sound
Brother Isle
Bullia Skerry
Fugla Ness
Gruney
Head Of Mula
Hillswick
Holm Of Skaw
Hoo Stack
Little Holm
Lunna Holm
Mousa
Muckle Holm
Muckle Roe
Muckle Skerry
Mull of Eswick
Ness Of Sound
Outer Skerry
Rova Head
Rumble Rock
Skate of Marrister
Suther Ness
Symbister Ness
Uyea Sound
Vaila Sound
Ve Skerries
Wether Holm
Whitehill

Isle of Man

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

Langness
Thousla Rock

References

"Northern Lighthouse Board: Lighthouses". Northern Lighthouse Board. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
The Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses' Aids to Navigation Map 2012

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List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses

Contents

Scotland (except principal island groups)

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

The Hebrides

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

Orkney

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

Shetland

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

Isle of Man

Major lighthouses

Minor lights

See also

References