Southerness Lighthouse
Kirkcudbrightshire
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Scotland's second oldest
lighthouse is located on the Southerness headland, known as Southerness
Point, at the north side of the entrance to Solway Firth.
Scotland's second oldest Lighthouse.
Photo by Anne
Burgess
A square tower was built in 1749, on the
instructions of Dumfries Town council, as a marker to make sure ships passed
safely into the Nith estuary, making it one of the oldest lighthouses in
Scotland. It appears on a map of 1753. Modifications took place over a number of
years including making it taller in 1795, adding a light for the first time
around the 1800's and improving the light around 1815. It was raised for a
second time in 1833-44 taking on it's distinctive shape.
The light was switched off in the mid-1930s
and the lighthouse is now disused.
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