Godrevy Lighthouse

Cornwall · United Kingdom

Godrevy Lighthouse, United Kingdom
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A white octagonal tower on a small island off St Ives Bay, built in 1859 after a schooner wrecked on the Stones reef. It is widely thought to have inspired the setting of Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse.

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