Portland Bill...not to be confused with the children's cartoon program of the same name is the southern most point of Portland and County of Dorset.With this impressive 35m lighthouse sitting at the tip since it was built in 1906.
With modern GPS the lighthouse as I have mentioned before on this site is rarely used, although it does if needed as the fog here can be pretty bad at times.
With the history of shipwrecks off Portland we have, you can't take chances.
this is not the only lighthouse at Portland bill either, behind the point I am stood to take this picture sits the white lighthouse which is now a bird observatory, as shown below...
Portland bill here is known for the main red and white lighthouse you see here although there really is much more to Portland bill than two lighthouses. Portland bill itself is quite isolated from the main housing areas, which is great in some sense and in the summer it really does feel like a day out, away from the beaten track.
Portland Bill, always worth going to see, whatever time of the year.
I think the first lighthouse, the really old one sited along the cliff up from both the one on the Bill and the Bird Observatory, would be superb to live in, what views they must have. To have a telescope sited in the old light housing room would be terrific. Wonder how many other places can boast three lighthouses!
ReplyDeleteThe little stumpy one you mean?
ReplyDeleteYeah, nice, with that huge garden too. :o)
Doubt there are many places with more than to within a mile of each other that's true.
I think all three lighthouses are great but the oldest is probably the quaintest.
ReplyDeleteI've lots of fond memories of running up and down the lighthouse steps in the summer as a child. Visited this summer but no running (too old now and they wouldn't allow it lol).
I've never been inside the 'stumpy' one, as you call it, but would be great to see what it's like now.