This is a list of the more significant lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

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Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. The list runs anticlockwise from north-east to south-east Wales.

Grading of sites

The list of lighthouse sites is graded according to historical significance, as follows:

• buildings and/or fittings of international importance: ++++
• buildings and/or fittings of British importance: +++
• buildings and/or fittings of Welsh importance: ++
• buildings and/or fittings of local importance: +

The English and Welsh names of each site are followed by the present and historic county designation and a six-figure Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey

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Historical information on the lighthouses of Wales is collected by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is a Welsh Government sponsored body based in Aberystwyth, Wales. It was founded in August 1908...

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Gwynedd (Caernarfonshire)

• Great Orme
  Great Orme
  The Great Orme is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales situated in Llandudno. It is referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd in a poem by the 12th century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr...
  
   Lighthouse: Penygogarth (SH 756845) -decommissioned 1985, now a hotel +

Gwynedd (Anglesey)

• Trwyn Du Lighthouse
  Trwyn Du Lighthouse
  Trwyn Du Lighthouse is a lighthouse between Dinmor Point near Penmon and Ynys Seriol, or Puffin Island, south east Anglesey, at the north entrance to the Menai Strait and marking the passage between the two islands....
  
   (Penmon)(SH 644815) ++
• Point Lynas Lighthouse
  Point Lynas Lighthouse
  Point Lynas Lighthouse is located on the north coast of Anglesey in North Wales .-Construction:This unusual and distinctive lighthouse was designed by Jesse Hartley, engineer to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board from 1824 to 1860, but with additions by G Lyster some twenty years later.It is a...
  
   (SH 479936) +++
• Amlwch lighthouse
  Amlwch lighthouse
  The Amlwch lighthouse is a lighthouse tower situated on the outer pier of Amlwch, at the northeast tip of Anglesey, Wales. The existing lighthouse, a square tower erected in 1853, is the fourth on on this site...
  
   (SH 452937) ++++
• The Skerries: Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid (SH 268948) +++
• Salt Island
  Salt Island, Anglesey
  Salt Island is an island joined to Holy Island, itself an island joined to Anglesey in North Wales. It is a natural provider of shelter for the towns Old Harbour from the Irish Sea and is also where the ferries to Dublin sail from.-History:...
  
  ,Holyhead: Ynys Halen (SH 256829) +++
• Holyhead Breakwater and Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse (SH 257848) ++
• South Stack
  South Stack
  South Stack is an island situated just off Holy Island on the North West coast of Anglesey. It is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses.-South Stack Lighthouse:...
  
  (SH 202823) ++
• Llanddwyn Island: Ynys Llanddwyn
  Ynys Llanddwyn
  Ynys Llanddwyn or Llanddwyn Island is a small tidal island off the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales. The nearest town is Newborough.-Geology and geography:...
  
   (SH 385625) +

Gwynedd (Caernarfonshire)

• Bardsey Island
  Bardsey Island
  Bardsey Island , the legendary "Island of 20,000 saints", lies off the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The Welsh name means "The Island in the Currents", although its English name refers to the "Island of the Bards", or possibly the island of the Viking chieftan, "Barda". It is ...
  
  : Ynys Enlli (SH 111206) +++
• St Tudwal's West Island, St. Tudwal's Islands: Ynys Tudwal (SH 334252) +

Pembrokeshire

• Strumble Head Lighthouse
  Strumble Head Lighthouse
  Strumble Head Lighthouse stands on Ynys Meicel , a rocky island at the northwest corner of Pencaer, five miles west of the town of Fishguard, in northern Pembrokeshire, Wales.- History :...
  
  : Ynys Meicel (SM 892413) ++
• South Bishop Lighthouse
  South Bishop Lighthouse
  The South Bishop Lighthouse is a lighthouse on South Bishop Island , a small rock approximately west of St Davids Head in Pembrokeshire, Wales....
  
  : Em-Sger (SM 651226) +++
• Skokholm Lighthouse
  Skokholm Lighthouse
  Skokholm Lighthouse is a lighthouse found on the small Welsh island of Skokholm, just off the south-west coast of Pembrokeshire.Skokholm island, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales...
  
   (SM 729046) ++
• Smalls Lighthouse
  Smalls Lighthouse
  Smalls Lighthouse stands on a small rock approximately west of St David's Peninsula in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was erected in 1861 by engineer James Douglass to replace a previous lighthouse which had been erected in 1776 on the same rock...
  
  :Gwales (SM 467089) ++++
• St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
  St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
  St. Ann's Head Lighthouse is a Lighthouse that overlooks the entrance to the Milford Haven waterway, one of Britain's deep water harbours, from St. Ann's Head near Dale in West Wales....
  
   (SM 806028) ++
• Front (Lit) Beacon or Mark, Great Castle Head, Milford Haven (SM 847060) +
• Rear (Lit) Beacon, Great Castle Head, Milford Haven (SM 848061) +
• Watwick Point Beacon, Milford Haven (SM 821044)
• West Block House Point Beacons, Milford Haven (SM 818035)
• Caldey Lighthouse
  Caldey Lighthouse
  Caldey Lighthouse is located on the south end of Caldey Island, three miles off the south Pembrokeshire, Wales coastline, a small island inhabited by a Cistercian monastery.-Construction and dimensions:...
  
  : Ynys Byr (SS 143959)
• Saundersfoot, (SN 138047) +

West Glamorgan

• Whiteford Lighthouse
  Whiteford Lighthouse
  Whiteford Point Lighthouse is located off the coast at Whiteford Point near Whiteford Sands, on the Gower Peninsula, south Wales.-Description:...
  
   or Whitford Point Lighthouse: Chwittfordd (SS 443973) ++++
• Mumbles Lighthouse
  Mumbles Lighthouse
  Mumbles Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Mumbles, near Swansea. The structure, which sits on the outer of two islands off Mumbles Head, is clearly visible from any point along the five mile sweep of Swansea Bay...
  
  (SS634872) +++
• Swansea Harbour Light, West Pier (SS 6653 9168)
• Swansea Harbour Light, East Pier (SS 666 925)

External links

• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales in English and Welsh