Lynmouth

Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse (also called the Countisbury Foreland Lighthouse, after the nearby village) is located on Foreland Point, Devon.

First lit on 28 September 1900, the lighthouse was built to assist vessels passing through the Bristol Channel. The light is 67 metres above the high tide, and flashes 4 times every 15 second.

Lynmouth Foreland had always been an unpopular posting among lighthouse keepers, not least because (due to its position on a steep north-facing slope) the isolated compound never sees the sun except during the three months of high summer. 

The lighthouse keeper’s cottage is now a National Trust holiday cottage. Porpoise and sea birds can be spied from its windows, and deer often shelter in the walkway down to the lighthouse.