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Smalls Lighthouse

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Smalls Lighthouse is a lighthouse that stands on the largest of a group of wave-washed basalt and dolerite rocksBritish Geological Survey 1978 1:50,000 scale geological map sheet (England & Wales)226/227 Milford, (Keyworth, Notts)Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map sheet OL36 South Pembrokeshire known as The Smalls approximately west of Marloes Peninsula in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and west of Grassholm. It was erected in 1861 by engineer James Douglass to replace a previous lighthouse which had been erected in 1776 on the same rock. It is the most remote lighthouse operated by Trinity House. Read more on Wikipedia

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