I noted the first time that I featured a lighthouse in Wales that there are a lot of lighthouses in Wales, despite it not being a very large area, as it has a lot of coastline. While I've featured a few lighthouses in Wales since, I've featured less than I thought I had.
So here's another one. It happens to be the lead lighthouse picture in the Lighthouse Directory section on Wales, so I figured this would be a good one to note. There are many, many, many artsy photography pictures of this one, so if that's something you like, search away.
Here's where it is located (in Wales, of course). It's west of Liverpool and north of Eryri National Park. There are many great Welsh villages around it.
So the Lighthouse Directory says this about it:
"1838 (James Walker). Active; focal plane 19 m (63 ft); white flash every 5 s. 29 m (62 ft) round cylindrical castellated stone tower with lantern and gallery, painted with black and white horizontal bands; the lantern is white. The historic 178 kg (392 lb) fog bell remains in place but it was replaced by a foghorn in 2019. ... The lighthouse stands at the northeastern corner of the Isle of Anglesey marking the northern entrance to Menai Strait, which separates the island from the Welsh mainland. In 1996 Trinity House renovated the lighthouse by converting it to solar power and installing a mechanism to operate the fog bell. A foghorn was installed (to the dismay of neighbors) when this mechanism became unreliable in 2019. In 2022 one of the two privately-owned onshore keeper's houses was for sale for £1.7 million. Located just off the point of Trwyn Penmon about 1200 m (3/4 mi) northeast of Penmon. It is possible to walk to the lighthouse at low tide, although the rough shingle beaches are rather difficult walking."Below I provide four pictures of this landmark lighthouse.
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