St Catherine’s Lighthouse
St Catherine's Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at St Catherine's Point at the southern tip of the Isle of Wight. It is one of the oldest lighthouse locations in Great Britain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: lighthouse on the southernmost point of the Isle of Wight, England, UK
- Also known as: “Niton Lighthouse” and “St. Catherine’s Lighthouse”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Knowles Farm and Blackgang Chine.
Knowles Farm
Farm
Photo: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knowles Farm is the name of an area of National Trust land at the southern tip of the Isle of Wight located at St. Catherine's Point. It takes its name from a nearby farm which lies outside the NT area just along the southern edge of it. Knowles Farm is situated 450 feet northwest of St Catherine’s Lighthouse.
Blackgang Chine
Theme park
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blackgang Chine is the oldest amusement park in the United Kingdom, having opened in 1843. Named after a now-destroyed chine in the soft Cretaceous cliffs, it is about 6 miles from Ventnor at the southern tip of the Isle of Wight just below St. Blackgang Chine is situated 1 mile northwest of St Catherine’s Lighthouse.
The Buddle Inn
Pub
Photo: grumpylumixuser, CC BY 3.0.
The Buddle Inn is a pub, which is situated 2,000 feet northeast of St Catherine’s Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackgang and Niton.
Blackgang
Hamlet
Photo: Editor5807, Public domain.
Blackgang is a village on the south-western coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It is best known as the location of the Blackgang Chine amusement park which sits to the south of St Catherine's Down.
Niton
Village
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Niton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Niton and Whitwell, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is west of Ventnor, with a population of 2,082.
Chale
Village
Chale is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight of England, in the United Kingdom. It is located three kilometres from Niton in the south of the Island in the area known as the Back of the Wight. Chale is situated 1½ miles northwest of St Catherine’s Lighthouse.
St Catherine’s Lighthouse
- Categories: lighthouse, tourism, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Niton and Whitwell, Isle of Wight, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.57562° or 50° 34′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.29784° or 1° 17′ 52″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C2WHPG2+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 366588870OpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“St Catherine’s Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Vuurtoren van Saint Catherine”
- French: “phare de Sainte-Catherine”
- French: “Phare de Sainte-Catherine”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska St Catherine”
- Russian: “Маяк Святой Екатерины”
- Spanish: “Faro de Punta de St. Catherine”
- Swedish: “Sankt Catherines fyr”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Catherine’s Lighthouse”. Photo: Jaapkievit, CC BY 3.0.