The Stump on the Eddystone Rocks.

The current Eddystone Lighthouse is the fourth to have been erected on the notorious Eddystone Rocks.

< The First  was Winstanley's Tower 1698 - 1703,
destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703





Then  Rudyerd's Tower 1709 - 1755,
destroyed by fire 2nd December 1755 >








< Third Lighthouse was Smeaton's Tower 1759 - 1882.

In the 1870s cracks appeared on the rocks on which the structure stood so it was dismantled, stone by stone, and re-erected on Plymouth Hoe, where it stands to this day.

Douglass's Tower 1882 - present day  >

The current lightnouse has been fully automated and unmanned since 1982.

The stump of Smeaton's Tower can be seen to its right.

Smeaton's Tower on Plymouth Hoe.