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| Lighthouses | Mr King, agent N Sunderland | on Sheet | There are two lighthouses on the | |||
| Mr Troth, Lightkeeper | 17 A | Farne island, one the low one, | ||||
| Mr Darling, Lightkeeper | of circular shape, near the N.W. | |||||
| Cliff, exhibits a fixed white light | ||||||
| High Lighthouse | High Lighthouse | adopted | at 45 feet above high water, and | |||
| the high one, also a round tower, | ||||||
| Low Lighthouse | Low Lighthouse | adopted | distant from the first, 187 yards, | |||
| near the south west side of the isle, | ||||||
| the lantern being 87 feet above high | ||||||
| water level. Both light towers are | ||||||
| coloured white, are also the detached | ||||||
| dwellings of the lightkeepers, and | ||||||
| the enclosure wall, and the high | ||||||
| light, which is white and revolving | ||||||
| showing the full face of a reflector | ||||||
| every 20 seconds, is visible 14 miles all | ||||||
| round the Compass. The lighthouses | ||||||
| were built in 1809-10, and in 1821 | ||||||
| the Farne lighthouses were purchased | ||||||
| by the Corporation of Trinity House, London. | ||||||
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