Location BrixhamDevonEngland Intensity 4,200 candela Elevation 58 m Automated 1921 Year first constructed 1906 | Markings / pattern white lantern and dome Range 19 nmi (35 km; 22 mi) Height 5 m Opened 1906 Focal height 58 m | |
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Tower shape cylindrical lantern with dome attached to equipment building Current lens 500 mm 3rd order rotating optic Similar Hilbre Island Lighthouse, Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse, St Bees Lighthouse, Cromer Lighthouse, Farne Lighthouse | ||
Berry Head Lighthouse is an active lighthouse, located at the end Berry Head near Brixham in Devon. It was originally built in 1906, and was then automated and converted to run on acetylene in 1921, and was modernised in 1994 since then it has run on mains electricity.
The light has a range of 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi), giving a double white flash every 15 seconds.
Berry Head is reputedly the shortest lighthouse in Great Britain, but also one of the highest, being only 5 metres (16 ft) tall, but 58 metres (190 ft) above mean sea level. It was also said to be the deepest because the optic was originally turned by a weight falling down a 45 metres (148 ft) deep shaft, though an electric motor is now used.
Semaphore signalling apparatus was on Berry Head before 1875 and acted as the Lloyds' Signal Station for Torbay.