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2009 marks the 250th anniversary of the construction of pioneering engineer John Smeaton's famous Eddystone Lighthouse, now relocated to Plymouth Hoe, though the substructure remains at sea
alongside the present lighthouse.
EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE TIMELINE
1698
HENRY WINSTANLEY
c 30m high, timber
 1708
JOHN RUDYERD
21m high, timber
 1759
JOHN SMEATON
22m high, stone
 1882
JAMES DOUGLASS
51.2m high, stone
Eddystone Lighthouse, Winstanley Tower Eddystone Lighthouse, Rudyerd Tower Eddystone Lighthouse, Smeaton Tower Eddystone Lighthouse, Douglass Tower
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LIGHTHOUSES
> Georgian Lighthouses
> Victorian Lighthouses
> All Lighthouses
 JOHN SMEATON
> Spurn Point Lighthouses (1776) by Smeaton
> Biography of Smeaton
> All items by John Smeaton
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