Wyre Light

Wyre Light
1840 elevation drawing of Wyre Light
Map
Locationoffshore Fleetwood
Lancashire
England
United Kingdom
Coordinates53°57′11″N 3°01′37″W / 53.953°N 3.027°W / 53.953; -3.027
Tower
Constructed1840
Foundationwrought iron piles
Constructioncast iron screw-pile lighthouse
Height4.9 metres (16 ft) (piles)
Shapehexagonal frustum structure with platform, keeper's quarter and lantern
Light
Deactivated1979[1]
Focal height14 metres (46 ft) (above half tide level)
Range8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi)[2]
The derelict Wyre Light in 2007

The Wyre Light was a 40-foot (12 m) tall iron screw-pile lighthouse marking the navigation channel to the town of Fleetwood, Lancashire, England.[3]

  1. ^ Wyre Light, Fleetwood Archived 4 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine engineering-timelines.com. Retrieved 6 June 2016
  2. ^ Wyre Lighthouse Archived 29 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine mycetes.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2016
  3. ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Northwest England". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 6 June 2016.