Lighthouses
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| Location | Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England |
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| Coordinates | 55°40′0″N 1°48′0″W / 55.666667°N 1.8°W / 55.666667; -1.8 |
| Year first constructed | 1859 and unknown |
| Height | 21 m (69 ft) and 8 m (26 ft) |
| Focal height | 9 m (30 ft) and 24 m (79 ft) |
| Range | 4 nmi (7.4 km) and 5 nmi (9.3 km) |
| Characteristic | Occurring White, Red and Green Every 6 Seconds synchonised with each other |
| ARLHS number | ENG 222 and ENG 314 |
Trinity House operates two lighthouses to guide vessels entering Holy Island Harbour, named Guile Point East and Heugh Hill. The former is one of a pair of stone obelisks standing constructed on a sandy spit on the south side of the entrance to the Harbour to act as a day mark. Since the early 1990s, a light has been fixed to it about one-third of the way up. The latter is a metal framework tower with a red triangular day mark.
Not a lighthouse but simply a day mark for maritime navigation, a white brick pyramid, 35 feet high and built in 1810, stands at Emmanuel Head, the north eastern point of Lindisfarne.
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