Building record MHG12216 - Stoer Lighthouse

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 0036 3296 (26m by 32m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC03SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish ASSYNT
Old County SUTHERLAND

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NC03SW 6 0037 3300

The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900, p.107) - Sinclair B Calder, 1974

J Aitken : 19/2/2004
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(Location cited as NC 003 330). Stoer Head Lighthouse, built 1870, engineers D and T Stevenson. A short circular-section tower linked at two levels to a flat-roofed two-storey block of keepers' houses.
J R Hume 1977.

This lighthouse was automated, and became unattended, in 1978.
R W Munro 1979.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Admiralty list of lights. 1980. Admiralty list of lights and fog signals: volume A: British Isles and north coast of France from Dunkerque to entrance to Goulet de Brest including North Sea oil and gas production installations. 252, no. 3882.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Allardyce and Hood, K and E M. 1986. At Scotland's edge: a celebration of two hundred years of the lighthouse service in Scotland and the Isle of Man. 78-9, 154.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Hume, J R. 1977. The industrial archaeology of Scotland 2: The Highlands and Islands. Paper (Original). 310.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Munro, R W. 1979. Scottish lighthouses. 129, 130, 155, 243, 255, 275.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Sinclair B Calder. 1974. The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900).

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Record last edited

Aug 31 2009 4:07PM

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