Barley Bay

Looking across Barley Bay from the climb to Hartland Point Coastguard Lookout to the radar dome on North Cliff to the east.

Taken from just next to the Coastguard Lookout at Hartland Point looking down to the Hartland Point Lighthouse currently wrapped in sheeting whilst being refurbished.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority operates the current radar at Hartland Point for air traffic control of both military and civilian aircraft. The unusual white-dome-topped structure can be seen from distances of up to 10 miles away. A previous MOD radar installation at the point was controlled from nearby RAF Hartland Point (Link Wikipedia).

Hartland Point is a 325 feet-high rocky outcrop of land on the north-western tip of the Devon coast, three miles northwest of the village of Hartland. The point marks the western limit of the Bristol Channel. Hartland Point Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building (List Entry number 1309148 Link Historic England) at the tip of the peninsula. It was first lit in 1874 (Source: Hartland Lighthouse - R. Pearse Chope. Hartland Chronicle July 1905) The tower is 59 feet tall with the lamp being 121 feet above mean sea level. The lighthouse was built with accommodation for four keepers and their families; it was protected by a 98 feet-long sea wall which was built in 1925 to prevent erosion of the rocks on which it stands. The tower was automated in 1984 and controlled from Trinity House Operations Centre at Harwich.

Hartland Point is a 325 feet-high rocky outcrop of land on the north-western tip of the Devon coast, three miles northwest of the village of Hartland. The point marks the western limit of the Bristol Channel. Hartland Point Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building (List Entry number 1309148 Link Historic England) at the tip of the peninsula. It was first lit in 1874 (Source: Hartland Lighthouse - R. Pearse Chope. Hartland Chronicle July 1905) The lighthouse tower is 59 feet tall with the lamp being 121 feet above mean sea level. The lighthouse was built with accommodation for four keepers and their families; it was protected by a 98 feet-long sea wall which was built in 1925 to prevent erosion of the rocks on which it stands. The tower was automated in 1984 and controlled from the Trinity House Operations Centre at Harwich. Hartland Point is a 325 feet-high rocky outcrop of land on the north-western tip of the Devon coast, three miles northwest of the village of Hartland. The point marks the western limit of the Bristol Channel. Hartland Point Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building (List Entry number 1309148 Link Historic England) at the tip of the peninsula. It was first lit in 1874 (Source: Hartland Lighthouse - R. Pearse Chope. Hartland Chronicle July 1905) The tower is 59 feet tall with the lamp being 121 feet above mean sea level. The lighthouse was built with accommodation for four keepers and their families; it was protected by a 98 feet-long sea wall which was built in 1925 to prevent erosion of the rocks on which it stands. The tower was automated in 1984 and controlled from the Trinity House Operations Centre at Harwich. The UK Civil Aviation Authority operates the current radar at Hartland Point for air traffic control of both military and civilian aircraft. The unusual white-dome-topped structure SS 2327 can be seen from distances of up to 10 miles away. A previous MOD radar installation at the point was controlled from nearby RAF Hartland Point (Link Wikipedia).

Trinity House Boundary Marker beside the SW Coast Path southeast of Hartland Point. Hartland parish. See also Link. Milestone Society National ID: DV_THHART01em

Maybe a slightly incongruous sight.

View from the South West Coast Path, at the top of East Titchberry Cliff

This wreck is immediately south of Hartland Point lighthouse. I think I've got the correct square. On 31 December 1982 the Panama-registered, Dutch-owned MS Johanna was driven aground on rocks less than 400 m from the lighthouse. The cargo ship was carrying wheat from the Netherlands up the Bristol Channel towards Cardiff. (updated from Wikipaedia)

I don't know whether 'Smoothlands' refers to the Tor or to the cut-off valley. There is a similar Tor/Valley feature at St Catherine's Tor to the South SS2224. Gull Rock is in the background.

This is the river valley that once continued into Smoothlands SS2226.

Viewed from the South West Coastpath on Blagdon Cliff.

Lots of farmland in this square, but I thought I'd submit a picture of this bridge instead.

In proud and grateful memory of those who gave their lives in the hospital ship Glenart Castle, 26th Feb 1918

The Panamanian ship Johanna ran aground just west of the Hartland lighthouse in 1983. Within days, looters had stripped the ship bare. Shortly thereafter, it broke into the two sections we see today.