This is one of the two lighthouses to guide vessels entering Holy Island Harbour, named Guile Point East and Heugh Hill. The former is one of a pair of stone obelisks standing on a sandy spit on the south side of the entrance to the harbour to act as leading marks. Since the early 1990s, a light has been fixed to it about one-third of the way up.[14] The latter is a metal framework tower with a black triangular day mark. Prior to November 1995 both were owned/operated by Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trinity House.[15] Not a lighthouse but simply a day mark for maritime navigation, a white brick pyramid, 35 feet high and built in 1810, stands at Emmanuel Head, the north eastern point of Lindisfarne.
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