Saint Bees Head Light
St Bees Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on St Bees Head near the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. The cliff-top light is the highest in England at 102 m above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “St Bees Lighthouse” and “St. Bees Lighthouse”
- Historically known as: “St. Bees Head Light”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Bees railway station and St Bees Priory.
St Bees railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sumanah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Bees railway station is a railway station serving the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. St Bees railway station is situated 2½ miles southeast of Saint Bees Head Light.
St Bees Priory
Church
Photo: Dougsim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Bees Priory is the parish church of St Bees, Cumbria, in England. There is evidence of a pre-Norman religious site, on which a Benedictine priory was founded by the first Norman Lord of Egremont William Meschin. St Bees Priory is situated 2 miles southeast of Saint Bees Head Light.
St Bees School
School
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Bees School is a co-educational fee-charging school, located in the West Cumbrian village of St Bees, England. In 1583, it was founded by Edmund Grindal, the Archbishop of Canterbury, as a free grammar school for boys. St Bees School is situated 2½ miles southeast of Saint Bees Head Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corkickle and Whitehaven.
Corkickle
Suburb
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Corkickle is a suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. It is served by Corkickle railway station. Corkickle is situated 3 miles northeast of Saint Bees Head Light.
Whitehaven
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies 4 miles outside the Lake District National Park.
Moor Row
Village
Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moor Row is a village in Cumbria, North West England. It is in Egremont civil parish and lies on a minor road off the A595, south-east of Whitehaven. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 759. Moor Row is situated 4 miles east of Saint Bees Head Light.
Saint Bees Head Light
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: St. Bees, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.51365° or 54° 30′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.63669° or 3° 38′ 12″ westElevation
302 feet (92 metres)Open location code
9C6RG977+F8OpenStreetMap ID
way 335159009OpenStreetMap feature
building=lighthouseOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
12195351Wikidata ID
Q2753066
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Saint Bees Head Light” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de St Bees”
- French: “Phare de St Bees”
- German: “St Bees Lighthouse”
- Japanese: “セント・ビーズ灯台”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska St Bees”
- Russian: “Санкт-Бисский маяк”
- Russian: “Сент-Бисский маяк”
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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 “Saint Bees Head Light”. Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.