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Dist:0.5km north<br/>
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Dist:0.5km north<br/>Fine examples of perpendicular rock strata.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.7km northeast<br/>I hope the waller was roped to a stout post!
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.7km north<br/>The rock strata can be seen both in the cliffs and in the 'pavement' across the bay. See also [[588598]].
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Dist:0.7km north<br/>
©John Thorn
Dist:0.8km north<br/>Unfortunately the path along the coast from the lighthouse only goes as far as Red Berry Bay, and this broad path has been provided so that visitors can return directly to the Priory and chocolate factory.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>I am assuming that the single-storey building provided a wash house, toilet, coal house etc for one of the keeper's houses. There is a similar block at the other end, next to the other house.
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Dist:0.8km east<br/>The building was an oil storage tank. The date was presumably 1875.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>It would be nice if one could walk all the way around the coast of the island, but access is restricted to about 800m near to the lighthouse.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>Was this an oil storage tank? Perhaps it was underground next to the oil storage shed, which might have contained the pump.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The oil store on the left was used when the lighthouse lamps were lit by oil. Each of the keeper's houses has a detached amenity building, presumably a wash-house etc.
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Dist:0.8km east<br/>Could it be the base for a coastguard's lookout? But there are no signs of a staircase or ladder inside.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The lighthouse was designed by a Trinity House engineer, Joseph Nelson, and was completed in 1829. It is on the site of a former chapel. Initially it was powered by oil, now by acetylene gas, switched on by a sun valve. The flanking keepers' houses were added in1868-70, designed by T C Harvey.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>Old windows used as windbreaks.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km north<br/>Here the bedding planes are almost vertical. The rock is Lower Devonian sandstone.
©Humphrey Bolton

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