Tour Scotland Travel Video Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Lochaber Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Ardnamurchan Lighthouse located on Ardnamurchan Point, on ancestry visit to Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. The lighthouse with its 118 feet high granite tower was completed in 1849 to a design by Alan Stevenson. It is the only lighthouse in the UK built in the Egyptian style. The light was automated in 1988 and is now operated remotely by the Northern Lighthouse Board from Edinburgh. The last part of the computer game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened takes place in this lighthouse.Scottish Gaelic: Ard na Murchan, means " the hill of the great sea."

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