Damehole Point

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

From the car park above the quay.

Seen looking north-east from near the quay. The image has been scanned from a Kodak Gold 100 negative dating from August 1990.

This is at the southern end of Warren Beach, looking east-north-east. The image has been scanned from a Kodak Gold 100 negative dating from August 1990.

Looking approximately east from near the quay.

Simon Jones writes: The rocks of Hartland Quay are the remains of a mountain range. Sedimentary rocks were deposited in a shallow sea during the Carboniferous period – about 320 million years ago. The layers are sequences of shales and mudstones representing the remains of sub-marine “avalanches” of sediments called turbidites. At the same time as the sands and mudstones were being deposited at Hartland, coals were being deposited in swamps, forming the South Wales coalfields. Plate tectonics caused the collision of two super continents with Hartland Quay in the middle. Devon was at the southern margin of a super-continent called Laurasia, which collided with the super-continent Pangaea – to the South. As these two mega-continents collided during the Variscan Orogeny the rocks at Hartland Quay were buckled and folded, producing the spectacular chevron shaped folds exposed in the cliffs today. The top surface was then eroded flat. Simon Jones writes: The rocks of Hartland Quay are the remains of a mountain range. Sedimentary rocks were deposited in a shallow sea during the Carboniferous period – about 320 million years ago. The layers are sequences of shales and mudstones representing the remains of sub-marine “avalanches” of sediments called turbidites. At the same time as the sands and mudstones were being deposited at Hartland, coals were being deposited in swamps, forming the South Wales coalfields. Link (Click "Geology of Hartland") The image has been scanned from a Kodak Gold 100 negative dating from August 1990.

Gull Rock is on the left.