South Walls, Cantick Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse (19th Century)
Site Name South Walls, Cantick Head Lighthouse
Classification Lighthouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Hoy; Cantrick Head; South Waas
Canmore ID 9433
Site Number ND38NW 13
NGR ND 34702 89394
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9433
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Walls And Flotta
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND38NW 13.01 HY 34690 89400 Lighthouse Keepers' Cottages
Not to be confused with Ruff of Cantick, Beacon (ND 34786 89773), for which see ND38NW 21.
(Location cited as ND 347 893). Cantick Head Lighthouse, South Walls, completed 1858, engineer Alan Stevenson. A tapering circular-section tower with corbelled walk-way. The keepers' houses have, unusually, ridge roofs.
J R Hume 1977.
See also sale brochure, Knight, Frank and Rutley, June 1991 for text, photograph and other items relating to sale of lightkeepers' houses, filed D 10.1 LIG (S).
Information from RCAHMS 1991, updated 2009.
