A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Eddystone Lighthouse, on the Eddystone Rocks, a dangerous reef in the English Channel, 14 miles SW. of Plymouth. The first Eddystone Lighthouse (Winstanley's), finished 1700, was swept away in the hurricane of November 1703; the second (Rudyerd's), finished 1709, was destroyed by fire in 1755; the third (Smeaton's), finished 1759, was removed, after the inauguration of the present lighthouse, and re-erected on Plymouth Hoe; the present lighthouse (Douglass's), finished 1882, is built entirely of granite, is 108 ft. high from base to vane, and has a flashing half-minute light seen 17½ miles.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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