Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Navigation Beacon on headland to E. of entry to Porthgain Harbour
Llanrhian, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 4 February 1991
- Locality
- Porthgain Harbour
- Community
- Llanrhian
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95030, -5.18214
- Cadw reference
- 12436
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Exterior
Probably mid C19 tall navigation beacon, one of a pair indicating position of harbour entrance at Porthgain. Rough rubble stone, some 3.5m high, circular in plan, bulbous cone in elevation, tapering to point.
Nearby in the register
- Polot HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Limekiln adjoining Kiln HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Porthgain Quarry and HarbourQuarryunder 1 mi
- Ty Mawr, PorthgainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.