The office above Harper’s Bookshop, Seabrook

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The Seabrook town crest: a shield edged with rope, showing a gold lighthouse, a sailing boat and an anchor, the date 1324, and the motto on a ribbon beneath.

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The Lighthouse

White tower, red top, on the point that shelters the harbour. Also on the town crest.

The view from the lighthouse gallery: the white lantern room and a railing with red posts in the foreground, and below them the quay, boats drawn up for repair, a stone building signed Chandlery and the town on the hill.

The lighthouse stands on the point that shelters the harbour to the south-east. It is a white tower with a red top, and a red-roofed building stands beside it. It can be seen from the end of the pier, from the breakwater and from upstairs windows on the High Street.

The lighthouse appears on the town crest, with a gull, a sailing boat and the date 1324.

It is no longer a working light. The light that may be seen blinking further along the coast at night is a different one. A keeper died here in 1982, and the Historical Society’s account is given under Seabrook legends.

No events are held at the lighthouse. The point is exposed, and visitors should expect wind.

Details

Address
The harbour point

On the map

Marked on the town map.

Find it on the map of Seabrook

What the locals say

“From the gallery you can see the whole harbour. Tom Bennett’s door will be open. It always is.”

Landmarks

Elsewhere in Seabrook

  • harbour

    The Harbour

    A working harbour. Boats in by mid-morning, mud at low tide.

  • landmark

    The Sea Wall

    The seafront walk, north of the pier. Best taken at half past eight.

The whole Seabrook directory

Holmes sits on the lobster pots by the chandlery. They smell of fish and nobody wants them until morning.