List of lighthouses in Wales

This is a list of lighthouses in Wales. The list runs anticlockwise from north-east to south-east Wales.^[1][2][3]

Point Lynas

Skerries

South Stack

Bardsey

Strumble Head

South Bishop

St.Ann's Head

Mumbles

Nash Point

Flat Holm

Major lighthouses of Wales, Smalls Lighthouse not shown.

Active lighthouses

Name	Image	Location	Year built	Tower height (in metres)	Focal height[a] (in metres)	Range (in nautical miles)
Trwyn Du Lighthouse		Llangoed	1838	29	19[4]	12[4]
Point Lynas Lighthouse		Llaneilian	1835	11	39[4]	18[4]
Skerries Lighthouse		Cylch-y-Garn	1717	23	36[4][5] (white), 26[5] (red)	20[4][5] (white), 10[5] (red)
Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse		Holyhead, Holyhead	1873	19	21[4]	14[4]
South Stack Lighthouse		Isle of Anglesey	1809[6]	28[6]	60[4]	24[4]
Twr Bach Llanddwyn Island Lighthouse		Rhosyr	18th century	5	12[4]	7[4] (white), 4[4] (red)
Bardsey Lighthouse		Aberdaron	1821	30	39[4]	26[4]
St Tudwal’s Lighthouse		Llanengan, Gwynedd[7]	1877[8]	11[8]	46[4]	14[4] (white), 10[4] (red)
Strumble Head Lighthouse		Pembrokeshire	1908	17	45[4]	26[4]
South Bishop Lighthouse		St David's and the Cathedral Close	1839	11	44[4]	16[4]
Smalls Lighthouse		Marloes and St Brides [9]	1861[10]	41[10]	36[4][5] (white), 33[5] (red)	18[4][5] (white), 13[5] (red)
Skokholm Lighthouse		Marloes and St Brides	1916	18	54[4]	8[4] (white red)
St. Ann's Head Lighthouse		Pembrokeshire	1841	13	48[4]	18[4] (white), 17[4] (red)
Great Castle Head Light		St Ishmael's	1870	5	27[5]	5[5] (white), 3[5] (red green)
Little Castle Head Light		Pembrokeshire [11]		26	53[5]	15[5]
Watwick Point Beacon		Pembrokeshire, Dale	1970	50	80[4]	15[4]
West Blockhouse Point Beacons		Pembrokeshire	1957	14
Caldey Lighthouse		Tenby	1829	16	65[4]	13[4] (white), 9[4] (red)
Saundersfoot Lighthouse		Pembrokeshire	1848	5	7	7
Burry Port Lighthouse		Pembrey and Burry Port Town [12]	1842		7[4]	7[13]
Mumbles Lighthouse		Swansea, Mumbles	1794	17	35[4]	15[4]
Porthcawl Lighthouse		Porthcawl	1860	9	10[5]	6[5] (white), 4[5] (red green)
Nash Point Lighthouse		St Donats	1831	37	56[4]	21[4] (white), 16[4] (red)
Flat Holm Lighthouse		Butetown	1737	30	50[4]	15[4] (white), 12[4] (red)
Barry Lighthouse		The Vale of Glamorgan	1890	9	12[5]	10[5]
Monkstone Lighthouse		The Vale of Glamorgan	1839	23	13[4]	12[4]
East Usk Lighthouse		Newport	1893	11	11[4]	11[4] (white), 10[4] (red green)

Inactive lighthouses

Name	Image	Location	Year built	Decommissioned	Tower height (in metres)
Point of Ayr Lighthouse		Llanasa		1844	18
Great Orme Lighthouse		Gwynedd, Llandudno		1985	11
Amlwch Lighthouse		Amlwch Community	1817	1972	11
Holyhead Mail Pier Lighthouse		Holyhead, Holyhead			15
Twr Mawr Llanddwyn Lighthouse		Rhosyr		1975	10
St. Ann's Head Lighthouse		Pembrokeshire	1844	1910	13
Whiteford Lighthouse		Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton	1865	1926	14
Old Nash Point Lighthouse		St Donats		1900s	20
West Usk Lighthouse		Wentlooge		1922	17

See also

• List of lighthouses and lightvessels
• List of lighthouses in England
• List of lighthouses in Scotland
• List of lighthouses in the Isle of Man
• List of lighthouses in Ireland

Notes

1. height of the light above water level