Landmark
Type
Whitburn
Where
Landmark · Heritage
Good for
Check before you go
Cost
Plan your visit
Opening times
Open access — check locally for facilities
Location
Whitburn
Parent hack
Arrive at opening time in school holidays — you'll beat the queues and the car park.
Souter Lighthouse is a lighthouse located to the North of Whitburn, South Tyneside, England.. Souter Point was the first lighthouse in the world to be actually designed and built specifically to use alternating electric current, the most advanced lighthouse technology of its day. The light was generated by a carbon arc lamp: first lit on 11 January 1871, it was described at the time as 'without doubt one of the most powerful lights in the world'.
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