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    Farne Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the southern tip of Inner Farne (one of a group of islands off the coast of North Northumberland). Built in the early...
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    originally named Inner Farne Lighthouse. Longstone Lighthouse was built in 1826 and originally named Outer Farne Lighthouse. Former lighthouses on the islands...
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    Longstone Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse on Longstone Rock in the outer group of the Farne Islands off the Northumberland Coast, England...
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  • "Eddystone Lighthouse". Trinity House. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1234614)". National Heritage List for England. "Farne Island...
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    Grace Darling (category British lighthouse keepers)
    Brownsman Island, one of the Farne Islands, in a small cottage attached to the lighthouse. Her father ran the lighthouse (built in 1795) for Trinity House...
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    to the Farne Islands". Your Northumberland Guide. Retrieved 29 November 2012. Monument No. 8298, English Heritage: PastScape "Farne Lighthouse". Trinity...
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    displayed for a number of years. Engineering portal List of lighthouses in England The Farne Islands; another important bird reserve about 30 km to the...
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  • (born 1806 Bamburgh) Keeper of Farne Island Lighthouse) and niece of Grace Darling. D Alan Stevenson, "The World's Lighthouses Before 1820", Oxford University...
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  • name University of London. 15 February – Longstone Lighthouse first illuminated as Outer Farne Lighthouse (Joseph Nelson, engineer). 24 February – Treaty...
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    both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands. It was extensively modernised in 1975 and is now monitored from...
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    and pilgrims alike. The name Lindisfarne has an uncertain origin. The -farne part of the name may be Old English fearena, genitive plural of fara, meaning...
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  • Hill Allen Banks & Staward Gorge Cherryburn Cragside Dunstanburgh Castle Farne Islands George Stephenson's Birthplace Hadrian's Wall and Housesteads Roman...
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    Clayton proposed a lighthouse at Foulness, Cromer, along with five other lighthouses on four different sites (he planned lights at the Farne Islands off Northumberland...
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    Bamburgh. Bamburgh Photos Local History and Information on Bamburgh, The Farne Islands and surrounding areas. Stained glass windows at St. Aidan's Church...
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    built in Dundee in 1834, and which struck and later foundered on one of the Farne Islands on 7 September 1838, giving rise to the rescue for which Grace Darling...
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    and his successor as Governor) sold the lighthouse to Trinity House, London. On the establishment of a lighthouse at Souter Point in 1871, the Tynemouth...
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    Scarborough Pier Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation on Vincent Pier in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, owned and operated by Scarborough Borough Council...
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  • abandoned in the North Sea 40 nautical miles (74 km) south east of the Farne Lighthouse, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued by Ariadne ( Rostock). Endeavour...
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  • Longstone, two villages in Derbyshire, England Longstone Lighthouse, a lighthouse on Longstone Rock, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England The Longstone, Mottistone...
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    shelter in a disused building, all other 'accommodation' at the Farne Island Lighthouse being full. When the 1838 lifeboat was deemed unfit for service...
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    Trinity House he built a number of lighthouses, including the High Lighthouse at Harwich (1818), and others at Holyhead, Farne Island, and Lundy Island, the...
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  • the North Sea as follows: On the Southwest. A line joining the Walde Lighthouse (France, 1°55'E) and Leathercoat Point (England, 51°10'N). On the Northwest...
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  • geographical exceptions (Longstone being located in the Farne Islands off the coast of England, Langness Lighthouse on the Isle of Man and Fastnet Rock off the southern...
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  • Adventures of Mike Pence: Ukraine, not Me-Kraine. Corrupt or Dumb? Galino & Farnes: The Attorney Guys. Doin' It Donkey Style. Stephen Colbert & Pete Alonso...
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    the River Coquet estuary. Among the 290 bird species identified on the Farne Islands, is the rare seabird the roseate tern. One of the foremost bird...
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    reserves in Northumberland including Holy Island National Nature Reserve and Farne Islands National Nature Reserve. Moreover, 50% of England's red squirrel...
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  • passage from Caen for Grangemouth with a cargo of iron ore ran aground off Farne Islands in the early morning and subsequently broke up and became a total...
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    wireless messages. By 11:00 p.m. the convoy had passed the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, still ignorant of the German force to the east. The weather...
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  • destroyer of the United States Navy Abessinia – German ship wrecked at the Farne Islands in 1921. Now a dive site USS Accokeek – Auxiliary ocean tug of the...
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    3 September 1921 she grounded on Knivestone Reef off Longstone Lighthouse in the Farne Islands. All of her crew survived. When the tide receded, she was...
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