Meridian Coast · est. 1896
Eight lights, one keeper's promise.
The Wickstone Trust is a preservation charity for the decommissioned and still-burning towers of the Meridian Coast. We climb them, paint them, keep their lenses honest, and let you stand where the keepers stood.
Six you can visit, two you can only watch
Every light on the coast has a different temperament. Some greet you with a spiral staircase and a warm keeper; some make you check a tide table first.
Wickstone Head Light
The trust's namesake. A granite tower on the headland with its original first-order lens, still turned by clockwork.
Visit the lightBrindle Rock Light
A cast-iron tower pinned to a tidal rock you can walk to at low water. The trust's hardest commute.
Visit the lightSkerrow Point Light
The last crewed light on the coast until 1987. Its keepers' cottages now hold the trust's archive.
Visit the lightLantern Deep Light
A screw-pile light standing in open water, painted rust-red so fishing boats read it before the fog does.
Visit the lightOld Halloway Light
Decommissioned in 1963 and left to the gulls until the trust re-roofed it in 2004. The lantern room is a museum now.
Visit the lightCape Perrin Light
A brick tower with a fog signal house that still sounds once a year, on the anniversary of the Perrin grounding.
Visit the lightPaint, glass, gearwork, and patience
Preservation here is not a ribbon-cutting. It is re-bedding a door hinge at low water, re-silvering a 130-year-old lens, and winding a clockwork that has not missed a night since 1848.
What we restore
Lenses, clockwork, brick, cast iron, and the small domestic rooms where keepers actually lived.
See the current projectsWinter maintenance weekends
November through March, the visitor traffic drops and the painting gets done. Bring boots.
Join a weekendNotes from the lamp room
Fog signals, tide tables, and what the sea does to a schedule.
Read the journal