Fleetwood Lighthouses
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Fleetwood Lighthouses by Carroll Pierce as part of the Geograph project.
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Fleetwood Lighthouses
Image: © Carroll Pierce Taken: 3 Jul 2012
These are two of Fleetwood's three lighthouses, both built in 1840. The Lower (Beach) Lighthouse is 30 feet above the watermark and is visible for 9 miles, while the Upper (Pharos) Lighthouse, 90 feet above the high water mark, is visible for 13 miles. What is left of the third lighthouse, the Wyre Light, rests on piles sunk into the sea bed of North Wharf, a sandbank stretching up to Morecambe Bay.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.926239
Longitude
-3.007482