Neist Point and Lighthouse, Isle of Skye, Scotland

by Neale And Judith Clark

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Neist Point and Lighthouse, Isle of Skye, Scotland

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Neale And Judith Clark

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Neist Point and Lighthouse, Isle of Skye,Duirinish peninsula, Highland and Islands, Scotland, UK, GB, Europe

Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909.An aerial cableway is used to take supplies to the lighthouse and cottages.

Since 1990, the lighthouse has been operated remotely from the Northern Lighthouse Board headquarters in Edinburgh. The former keepers' cottages are now in private ownership.

In 1971 the lighthouse was listed as a Category B listed building

The Isle of Skye, commonly known as Skye, Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò, is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
Eilean a' Cheò, which means island of the mist (a translation of the Norse name), is a poetic Gaelic name for the island.

Alamy reference DA4CJ1

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