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Toward Point Lighthouse

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329: 37: 317: 233: 201: 186: 168: 145: 127: 27: 26: 297:(1772–1850) for the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust. Two lighthouse keepers' houses were added in the later 1800s. A white building on the foreshore housed the foghorn mechanism, originally a steam engine and then diesel engines. The foghorn was taken out of operation in the 1990s. The keeper's cottages were sold in 2012 and are now a private home. 304:
as it crosses the Scottish mainland. The Highland Boundary Fault does not run through Toward Point, but about one kilometre to the west it can be located on the Toward shore by the presence of Serpentinite and the sudden change from younger sedimentary rocks to much older metamorphic rocks, notably
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A picture of Toward Point Lighthouse from the bbc.co.uk/scotland/whereilive website.
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Toward Point Lighthouse was completed in 1812. It was built by
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Toward Point marks the extreme south-westerly point of the
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Cowal
OS grid
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Coordinates
55°51′37″N 4°58′41″W / 55.86028°N 4.97806°W / 55.86028; -4.97806
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Robert Stevenson
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Clyde Port Authority
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nautical miles
Characteristic
Cowal
Toward
Argyll and Bute
Loch Striven
Firth of Clyde
Robert Stevenson
Highland Boundary Fault
Toward Point lighthouse
Lighthouse and foghorn building
List of lighthouses in Scotland
List of places in Argyll and Bute
Castle Toward
Argyll and the Western Isles

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