This page is for lighthouses in the southeastern corner of Scotland, from the Fife Council Area to the English border. This region includes the Firth of Forth and its approaches, including the important ports of the Edinburgh area. The Northern Lighthouse Board, established by an act of Parliament in 1786, manages the major lighthouses of Scotland and the Isle of Man. For five generations engineers of the Stevenson family created for the Board a network of elegant and durable lighthouses famous around the world. Most of these lighthouses remain in service today. Information on the great NLB lighthouses is easy to find on the Internet but it's harder to find information on the harbor lighthouses of Scotland's many ports. Special thanks to Bill Newman, Michael Spencer, and Ian Wright for their efforts in identifying and photographing many of these smaller lighthouses. The word ness (from the Scots Gaelic neas) means a headland, and inch (from the Scots Gaelic innis) is an island. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from Volume A of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA numbers are from Publication 114.
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Fife Lighthouses
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Lighthouses South of the Firth of Forth
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![]() West Breakwater Light, Leith, August 2018 photo copyright Heather Craven; used by permission |
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![]() Burntisland East Breakwater Light at Water of Leith, June 2007 Flickr Creative Commons photo by Scott Denham |
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Information available on lost lighthouses:
Notable faux lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: North: Eastern Scotland | South: Northeastern England
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Posted September 9, 2004. Checked and revised August 17, 2019. Lighthouses: 43. Site copyright 2019 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.