Noss Head Lighthouse

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Light Established 1849
Engineer Alan Stevenson
Builder Robert Arnot of Inverness
Position Latitude 50° 28.8'N Longitude 03° 03.0'W
Character Flashing white/red every 20 sec.
Nominal Range White 25m Red 21 miles
Structure White stone tower, 18 metres high.
History The lighthouse was completed in 1849 and the light was switched on Monday 18 June 1849. A new style of lantern with diagonal instead of vertical framing was first used by Stevenson at Noss Head. Stronger and less liable to intercept light in any particular direction, it was adopted as the standard pattern for the service. The lens which is approximately 6ft in diameter rotates by clockwork machinery around a mercury vapour lamp. An access road from Wick to Noss Head was bult by the unemployed poor of the area who were paid 3/6d per day.
The Light was automated in 1987 and is now remotely monitored from the Northern Lighthouse Board’s headquarters in Edinburgh.
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