The best-known lighthouses in England
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Dover has the Roman Pharos and South Foreland 4 km along the cliffs; Eastbourne has two, the Beachy Head Lighthouse and the Belle Tout lighthouse, 5 and 6 km out. Further west, Portland Bill Lighthouse is 11 km from Weymouth, The Needles Lighthouse and Hurst Point Lighthouse sit on opposite sides of the western Solent, and Cornwall adds Godrevy Lighthouse and Tater Du Lighthouse. Smeaton's Tower (1759) is a kilometer from the center of Plymouth.
RLQuest knows 122 named lighthouses in England, 39 of them with a Wikipedia article. Lights come in pairs here: Burnham-on-Sea has a High and a Low Lighthouse, the Humber its Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse 8 km from Kingston upon Hull. In the app, a walk out to a light is a quest with a clear end point, verified by the track on your phone.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 70 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
