Burry Port Lighthouse

Burry Port is a small coastal town in the South of Wales.

The harbour was built in the early 1830s and was the main port for exporting coal from the surrounding areas.

The Harbour initially was named the Pembrey New Harbour and was a larger upgrade

 to the smaller harbour just along the coast.

The harbour's name was changed by an act of parliament in 1835 to Burry Port Harbour

 and thus gave the name to the Town of Burry Port.

Visit Date August 2020

Today the harbour has been developed into the local Marina and also houses the lifeboat station.

The lighthouse was built in 1842 and was restored in the mid 1990's by Llanelli Borough Training, with the support of the Burry Port Yacht Club with Trinity House*** supplying the lantern for the structure which was officially reopened on 9th February 1996 by the Mayor of Llanelli.

The lighthouse is quite small with its walls being just 24ft high with the gallery and lantern on top.

The lantern light is visible for 15 miles and is an important landmark for the marina.

***Trinity House is a charity dedicated to safeguarding shipping and seafarers, providing education, support and welfare to the seafaring community with a statutory duty as a General Lighthouse Authority to deliver a reliable, efficient and cost-effective aids to navigation service for the benefit and safety of all mariners.

Burry Port harbour was the landing place for the first crossing of the Atlantic by a woman please see my post:-

Amelia Earhart and Burry Port

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Visiting Burry Port is very easy.
There is lots of parking here, with the closest being the harbour car park (51.680651095461656, -4.2513750336966005).


There are lots of shops toilets and other amenities close by.

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Nash Point Lighthouse

 Visit Date: September 2019

Nash Point Lighthouse is to be found on the South Wales Coast. It's an iconic and historic building that has now been given Grade 2 listed status.

The lighthouse was built between 1831 -1832. And was first turned on On September 1st 1832.

This lighthouse was constructed after the loss of "The Frolic" a shipwrecked here in 1831 with the loss of 78 lives.

 

There are two towers. The tall lighthouse and a smaller tower. Both initially gave out light..

The lower tower was decommissioned in the 1920s and the main tower ceased to be manned in August 1998

The lighthouse is made of local "Blue Lias" Stone and was quarried from the cliffs that it stands on.

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Visiting this site is very easy and there is a car park with a small shop/café where you will need to pay a small charge (51.403908670782236, -3.5590157508222844).


The B4265 which spans between Cardiff and Bridgend would be the main link. From this road head for the village of Macross and then onto Nash Point.

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Mumbles Lighthouse

Visit Date: August 2020:

Mumbles is a small coastal village near the city of Swansea in South Wales.

It sits at the eastern edge of the Gower peninsular much of which forms the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Mumbles or as we call it "The Mumbles" is a beautiful place to visit and I'm confident that the village will be the subject of a future blog but for now, it is the lighthouse that takes centre stage.

Built-in 1794 the tower is 17 metres high and stands on the outer of the two outlying small islands on Mumbles head between Swansea Bay and Bracelet bay.

It is 35 metres above mean high water and is one of the most photographed buildings in the area.

The Swansea Harbour Trustees were given the power to provide a lighthouse at the outer Mumbles in the Harbour Act of 1791; in July 1792 work began, but while in construction the structure collapsed in October of the same year.

In 1793 the plans of the local architect William Jernegan were accepted and the lighthouse was finally completed and lit in 1794.

Originally lit by two coal fires it was then converted to oil then a further upgrade in 1860, saw the oil-powered light upgraded to a dioptric light.

A flashing mechanism was added in 1905 and this was automated in 1934.

The lamp was electrified in 1969.

By the late 1970s the lantern was corroded and was replaced in 1987.

In 1995, the main light was replaced and an array of solar panels added.

Around the base is a fort or battery which surrounds the southern side of the lighthouse. it was built in 1860 by the War Department. It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built in response to a perceived French invasion.

It mounted five 80 pounder rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns, two in casemates and three on the roof

In 1940 two 4.7-inch guns were manned by men of the 531st (Glamorgan) Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery. Well before the end of the war, as the German threat decreased, the battery was placed into care and maintenance.

As the lighthouse is accessible at low tide and I intend to visit the island and take more images of this landmark.

Very near to the lighthouse is Mumbles pier the second landmark of Mumbles.

Built and opened on the 10th of May 1898 at a cost of £10,000

During a major renovation in 2012, a new lifeboat station and Royal National Lifeboat institution gift shop was built at the end of the pier and fishing platforms added.

The original Red and cream coloured lifeboat station can be seen alongside the new station.

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Visiting Mumbles is very easy. Take the M4 motorway west until you see the first exit for Swansea then keep on the coast road through Swansea to the Mumbles.
Mumbles is a seaside town and has lots of parking along the coast and there is also a good car park on the west side at Bracelet Bay (51.566758645490815, -3.9814065526495392) which is called Limeslade bay Car Park.

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