Longships Lighthouse, Land's End

Name: Longships Lighthouse
Address: Land's End, United Kingdom

#7 among attractions in Land's End

Lighthouse, Vernacular architecture

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Longships Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse about 1.25 mi off the coast of Land's End in Cornwall, England. It is the second lighthouse to be built on Carn Bras, the highest of the Longships islets which rises 39 feet above high water level. In 1988 the lighthouse was automated, and the keepers withdrawn. It is now remotely monitored from the Trinity House Operations & Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 50°4'1"N, 5°44'48"W

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Land's End United Kingdom

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Longships Lighthouse – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Minack Theatre, PK Porthcurno, Cot Valley, Maen Castle.

4.6 miE
Open-air amphitheatre with sea views
Minack Theatre, Penzance
118 min walk • Nestled atop the rugged cliffs of Cornwall, the Minack Theatre in Penzance is a remarkable open-air theatre that offers one of the most unique theatrical experiences in the United Kingdom. Built in the 1930s by Rowena Cade, the theatre has become renowned for its...
4.5 miE
Museum, Science museum
PK Porthcurno, St Levan
116 min walk • PK Porthcurno is a museum located in the small coastal village of Porthcurno Cornwall, UK. Porthcurno was the point at which many submarine telegraph cables—transatlantic and to other locations—came ashore.
4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Cot Valley, St. Just in Penwith
103 min walk • Cot Valley is located half-a-mile south of St Just in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a very mild microclimate. The stream which runs down the valley discharges into the Atlantic Ocean at Nanven.
1.8 miE
Forts and castles
Maen Castle, Land's End
45 min walk • Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in Cornwall. It is one of only two fortified sites in Cornwall where Early Iron Age pottery has been found.
4.3 miNE
Prehistoric site
Ballowall Barrow, St. Just in Penwith
111 min walk • Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric funerary cairn which Ashbee and Hencken state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just in Cornwall, England, UK. It is also known as Carn Gluze Barrow.
2.4 miNE
Sand dune
Whitesand Bay, Land's End
61 min walk • Whitesand Bay is a wide sandy bay near Land's End in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It stretches for one mile between the headlands of Pedn-mên-du and Aire Point. and contains the village of Sennen Cove. It is also a landing point for the Atlantic Crossing 1 international telecommunications cable.
~0 ftE
Lighthouse
Longships, Land's End
1 min walk • The Longships is the name given to a group of rocky islets situated approximately 11⁄4 miles west of Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The islets are marked by the Longships Lighthouse, the current structure being first lit in December 1873.
2 miE
50°4'40"N • 5°42'15"W
Roundhouse and Capstan Gallery, Land's End
52 min walk • Shopping, Museum, Art gallery
4.5 miNE
Ruins, Historical place, Archaeological site
Chapel Carn Brea
114 min walk • Chapel Carn Brea is an elevated Hercynian granite outcrop, owned by the National Trust at the southern edge of the civil parish of St Just, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
3.6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Marine reserve
Gwennap Head, St Levan
93 min walk • Gwennap Head is a headland on the south coast of the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is within the parish of St Levan and approximately 4 miles south of Land's End, and less than 1 mile north-west of Porthgwarra, the nearest village.
2.3 miE
Church
St Sennen's Church, Land's End
60 min walk • St. Sennen's Church, Sennen is a parish church in the Church of England located in Sennen, Cornwall, England, UK.