Tayport, West Common, West Lighthouse And 7 West Lights
Cottage (19th Century), Lighthouse (19th Century)
Site Name Tayport, West Common, West Lighthouse And 7 West Lights
Classification Cottage (19th Century), Lighthouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dalgleish Street
Canmore ID 33164
Site Number NO42NW 57
NGR NO 44683 29322
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33164
- Council Fife
- Parish Ferry-port-on-craig
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO42NW 57 4467 2932
Stone construction painted white tile (?) masonary.
Cottages, 7&8 west lights, Tayport.
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Fife Ness to Newburgh 1996
NO42NW 57 44683 29322
NO42NW 179 44670 29320 8 West Lights
(Location cited as NT 447 293). West Lighthouse, built 1823 and later. Tall circular tower.
J R Hume 1976.
Publication Account (2013)
TAYPORT LIGHTHOUSES
NO4468329322
West taller ligthouse is a 24m/77ft high tower whitewashed as a day mark. Now privately owned (along with adjoining cottages). Along with the East or Low Tayport Lighthouse, with which it was lined up with the navigation channel, it was designed by Robert Stevenson. Built by Dundee's own Trinity House in 1823.
M Watson, 2013