The Boscastle Lookout and the National Coastwatch - TopicsExpress

The Boscastle Lookout and the National Coastwatch Institution High on a promontory overlooking the picturesque harbour of Boscastle, there is a square white building that despite being very small, is hard to miss. The ‘lookout’ which has commanding views over the Bristol Channel was originally built in the early 1800s as a summer house by the local landowner Thomas Rickard Avery. Later it was leased to the board of trade as a lookout to help prevent smuggling, and later used as a coastguard lookout up until the 1970s. Recently, under National Trust ownership it had been maintained as a folly, until in 2002 when it was leased by them to the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI). 20 years old, the NCI is a voluntary organisation and registered charity set up to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed. In 1994 when two fishermen lost their lives off the Cornish coast below a recently closed Coastguard lookout, local people decided to open and restore the visual watch. When the first station was opened at Bass Point on the Lizard, NCI was born. Today 49 stations keep a visual watch around the coastline of England and Wales, with more in the pipeline subject to available funding. Each Station is manned by a team of fully trained and dedicated volunteers who keep a daylight watch up to 365 days a year. Watch keepers are the eyes and ears along the coast and stations are equipped with telescopes, radar, telephone and weather instrumentation as well as up to date charts. Watch keepers are trained to act in an emergency, report to the Maritime Coastguard Agency and, if required, co-ordinate with the search and rescue services. They provide a vital link with all the emergency services and can provide an emergency contact point on land for both sea and shore users. Next time you are on the Southwest Coast Path, it’s worth making the small deviation to take a quick peak at the ‘Lookout’ and speak to some of the volunteers helping to keep us safe.

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