Well, there’s never been a recorded case of a ship running aground in Birmingham. Sounds to me like the lighthouse is doing a great job!
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As someone who lives in the Republic I'm quite glad when it's omitted from maps of the UK.
we're glad too.
Shocking news, salty Irish person bitching and moaning in a post about GB/UK/England.
It's doubly hilarious when it's just an American with an identity crisis whose Great Great Grandmother had a vaguely Irish sounding name so that's now their nationality. Never been there but that's where they're from.
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Do the world a favour. Shut the fuck up
Time out. Irish pride is learned. It's not like the family kept their nationality a secret and then through sheer luck, one day Liam found out he had roots and became a leprechaun. America doesn't work like that except for Boston and parts of New Jersey.
If only they had more lighthouses, we might have seen them.
That’s specious reasoning, u/moistpishflaps.
Ryan10e, I’d like to buy your lighthouse.
And yet you cannot prove me or my hydrated marine genitals wrong
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You leave Lewis’ butt out of this
So basically on par for this sub. Absolutely useless dogshit
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Turns it out it never had any lighthouses so all these ships kept crashing into it, hence the movement. With its current collision patterns, it should reach New York in 175 years
It's not removed. ~8 NI lighthouses are shown.
Normal lighthouses are to warn people they’re about to enter a dangerous rocky area. That lighthouse is to warn people they’re about to enter Birmingham.
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Yes, it is the N.L.B., Northern Lighthouse Board in Scotland https://www.nlb.org.uk/
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inaccurate map. they’ve included places called “Lighthouse”
edit: also they’ve excluded lots of coastal lighthouses too because they probably didn’t show up in their google maps search.
The internet was supposed to give us access to any information we want but all it's really done is make us lazy as hell.
I just checked, I'm like 100% certain this is all from OpenStreetMap for spots that are categorised as lighthouses.
Did a QuickOSM search and fired it through QGIS.
Data looks the same.
Canals innit.
Charity shop
Helps travellers avoid Birmingham.
Birmingham has more miles of canals than Venice.
Because when you're driving up the M6 at 70mph you need to know where it is so you don't run aground on the rocks and sink! Come on man, surely we all know why we have lighthouses!
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So, there's a lighthouse in Manchester on this map, and it turns out there is a building called The Lighthouse there.
In Birmingham, there's The Lighthouse youth centre.
The Mumbles lighthouse is shown in Llanelli, 20 miles west of its actual position.
So this is actually just a map of search results for the word "lighthouse?"
Looks like it. They're a long way from the sea, and canals aren't known for their rocky outcrops.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the barge community needed lighthouses to avoid the trollies
There are literally organisations responsible for maintaining these where you could get 100% solid information from about lighthouses and their locations. Trinity House, Northern Lighthouse Board. This is just lazy
Yeah because London is showing up and there’s definitely no lighthouses on the Thames
actually there is! it's a training lighthouse but it's still functioning :)
If it is, they missed the National Lift Tower, colloquially known as "the Northampton Lighthouse".
Nice so another cool guide that is Absolutely useless
Well, this is r/coolguides not r/usefulguides, so.......
Ok?
Even the costal points are brought to question. How many restaurants or cafes could be named The Lighthouse. A quick google shows 3 on the south east coast.
You were planning on navigating using this?
Well... now I'm not.
Well if it's not accurate why not just take a map of Britain and just randomly put dots on it? Is that cool to you? Shiny pretty lights are pretty!
Yeah Porthcawl lighthouse seems too far south here unless they’ve missed Porthcawl and that lighthouse is somewhere further south down the coast
However, there is a lighthouse in Crich in Derbyshire, which is almost literally as far from the sea as you can get. It’s actually a war memorial but it has a light that rotates at night, so it looks like a lighthouse whether or not it actually counts as one. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/crich-stand
There’s also a lighthouse in Wolverhampton. Dot looks a little low for both Wolverhampton and Birmingham though. Looks more like Kiddy or even Worcester.
I'm wondering if it's supposed to be Burry Port lighthouse rather than Mumbles
If so, Mumbles lighthouse is missing and is a pretty major omission.
Agreed, pretty sure there's loads missing
It's the Monton lighthouse, obviously not the office block
It’s a nice map but I know of at least two that are missing so there may be others. The two I know of are the Butt of Lewis and Arnish light both in the Isle of Lewis.
Missing several in the Isles of Scilly too including Bishop Rock.
Both lights missing from Lundy as well
So basically on par for this sub. Absolutely useless dogshit
No Withernsea either
No Portland Island either
Rathlin Island west is missing. Its an upside down lighthouse!
Missing Anvil Point in Dorset too.
Also missing one by Inverness
Muckle flugga (furthest north tip of Shetland) missing too.
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This isnt a guide
There hasn’t been a single guide in like 1 or 2 weeks now…
Wtf are the mods on this sub even doing these days?
Even if it was accurate it still wouldn’t be a fucking guide
Why not, it could (were it accurate) literally help guide you to the lighthouses in the UK?
I mean, I'm also one of those weirdos who get frustrated that so many subreddits with promising premises routinely go to shit.
Like that there's practically nobody on lamf that knows what lamf means, and that it and selfawarewolfs are basically just worse version of politicalhumor if you can imageine such a thing.
Or that the explain the joke subs are just a lazy way to repost jokes that nobody actually needs an explanation for.
but this
it could (were it accurate)
got a serious chuckle out of me, well done.
Nonetheless, one must admit that it is, in fact, pretty cool.
But yes, please do your best to keep subs on topic
Why not? If I wanted to know where the lighthouses were in the UK, this would be a cool guide.
Because some of them aren't lighthouses and you're missing a load. Don't be a clown.
That doesn't stop it being a guide, or indeed a cool guide. It's just an inaccurate guide that looks cool!
That doesn't stop it being a guide, or indeed a cool guide. It's just an inaccurate guide that looks cool!
It's not a guide, it's just a piece of art.
Doesn't stop it from being a guide
It does, guides explain how to do things, this isn't explaining how to do anything. Just vaguely highlighting locations of some lighthouses.
Cool is pretty subjective. I personally find accuracy, punctuality and being respectful in the local community very cool.
But it's inaccurate, so not cool and not a guide.
Oh OK, I hadn't realised it was inaccurate. Definitely looks cool though!
Are maps guides? I guess they guide you to places, but that's not what I normally think of when talking about these kinds of guides.
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This is a very, very inaccurate map, which is a shame because all one has to do to find out which lighthouses are still operational in the UK is to consult the Trinity House Directory.
Not to mention, the west and south sides of Northern Ireland are completely at risk of shipwrecks from the lack of lighthouses.
An illuminating guide, I sea.
Now you're just show boating.
Someone tag Hank from Pardon My Take
Are these all visible from a federal body of water? Maintained by the coast guard?
Missing a few.
Slightly off topic, but why is the western side of Ireland completely dark?
The western side of Northern Ireland is a land border with the Republic of Ireland, which isn't part of the UK, hence why only NI is shown
That’s only Northern Ireland (as that’s part of the UK) so the west and south are land borders into Ireland.
Because it's a map of the UK.
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It’s to avoid alerting the people in the republic of ireland 🇮🇪 about the presence of Northern Ireland. Best to keep them in the dark about the 6 extra counties up there ripe for the taking!
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Don't worry, we'll have them back soon👍
Just a thing UK always do with maps. They always pretend the Republic of Ireland doesn’t exist.
Edit: typo
It's not part of the UK, why should it be included on a map of the UK
It’s more with stuff like the weather on the BBC, ROI is just a blank area devoid of weather. Takes more effort to cut us out than it does to just leave us in. And in the case of this map, it seems a bit strange to just leave ROI out, when a map of all the lighthouses on the whole Isles would be more interesting.
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True, actually I have noticed it being included in the last few years (but not talked about by the weatherman, which is fine obviously). It definitely used to not be. My English mother even saying it was a bit ridiculous how often they just cut us out of maps.
Your mother is incorrect. It has always been there, the weather forecaster just stands on that side obscuring ROI whilst leaving NI visible. Been that way since the early 70s at the very least.
As an Irish man I much prefer that they leave us out instead of implying we're in the uk which some of them have an awful habit of doing.
Why is there a giant circle of lighthouses in the Uplands?
Thats where the Aliens landed
Anybody else notice that most of them appear to be on the coast? Weird.
Very weird, i wonder how cars and trucks manage to drive around in the dark without any lighthouses…
I love when maps of the UK just delete the Republic of Ireland. "This is a map of lighthouses in the UK after Ireland just floated away." Edit: I know Ireland isn't in the UK. It is however attached to Northern Ireland and thus appears in most maps of the UK. My point was sometimes maps solve this by removing Ireland, which is funny as it implies Ireland has been destroyed.
Not a part of the UK, ducky. The UK is Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland. Ireland is a different country.
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The North really needs some lighthouses across its south and West coastlines. Dangerous waters there.
It is dimmed out. See, no lighthouses innit
I know. The point is obliterating Ireland just to have Northern Ireland on its own is funny looking. Thanos but he snapped away countries instead of people.
*The North of Ireland and its part of Ireland, currently illegally occupied.
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Ireland isnt in the UK...
And if you included it, people would lose the plot. Lose lose situation
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It must suck sailing around the west coast of Northern Ireland
You would break all the laws of physics if you managed to sail around the west coast of Northern Ireland.
Highly recommend reading Seashaken Houses for anyone who is interested in the lighthouses around the UK or for anyone who isn't!
Ah yes, lighthouses in the middle of uk guiding land ships. 🙃
-sad St. Kilda noises-
...and I guess the Isle of Man is a myth?
Very illuminating!
Why is spurn point missing but its showing 2 inland at the start of the humber
This seems inaccurate. I know for a fact that there are three on Rathlin Island and this omits the one on the west side of the island by the puffin sanctuary. Also as someone who grew up in the West Midlands, I’ve never seen any lighthouses in Birmingham
Source: https://twitter.com/researchremora They've done other countries and regions too.
Isle of Man?
Not UK
Ever been so angry you just deleted 26 counties? The remaining 6 look like the long lost city of Atlantis. Just as big a fucking fairy tale.
That’s pretty cool
Why most of west Ireland don't have lighthouse?
This is a map of lighthouses in the uk. Northern Ireland is shown on the map and it doesn't have a west coast. The Republic of Ireland which makes up about 5/6ths of the island of Ireland is a sovereign independent country.
Maps like this are what add peoples stupidity. Removing the rest of the island of Ireland. Ive seen them do this on bbc weather.
It’s a sad attempt at latent imperialism.
I'd interpret it as the complete opposite. Should they have included the northern coast of France, Belgium and the Netherlands as well?
Obviously? They don’t have to give the weather for that area, but include in on the map if the map is wide enough where it should be included.
In the US we don’t just show the single region floating in a void if we’re doing the weather for that single region.
That left and bottom side of northern island's looking pretty unprotected, yikes
That part of the UK gets little investment from Westminster. No funding for the badly needed lighthouses along the Southern & Western sheer cliffs of Northern Ireland.
A real danger to the ships on that coastline
It's strange though, there's never been a recorded case of a ship hitting the southern shore
Kind of annoying that they added a white glow though.
So odd to see them going to such great lengths to include NI and exclude ROI, making Northern Ireland look like a tiny island.
Great lengths? It's just a map of the UK. Why would a map of the UK include the country of Ireland? They also didn't include France.
It's a map of the UK. Northern Ireland is part of the UK. The Republic of Ireland isn't
No its not. Its a map of the uk
For most it’s just because they can’t be asked to draw or illustrate the rest of Ireland so will only do what is actually required. (Ireland’s rocky western coast is a nightmare for artists), I am guilty of this too.
Now do sectors, colors and patterns.
Where is Bell Rock! 11 miles out from the Firth of Tay.
Need to update that and get rid of sovereign lighthouse dot.
Seems a bit classist to have them only along the border and nowhere inland.
Surprisingly few in the approach to the Thames Estuary. That's a pretty heavily trafficked route and has been well used for centuries.
I'm not sure about the south side but the north side is shallow mudflats for miles from the coast so you need to stay in the middle. Wouldn't that make it more helpful to have lighthouses since you need to see it from even further away than just seeing a cliff/beach?
Something seems wrong about this.
I feel I'd have heard of a lighthouse in the middle of the country.
There's 3 on portland, 2 don't work so idk if that counts
What's the deal with the ones in the interior? Rivers? Lakes?
Ok so either those are some really bright lighthouses or the UK is smaller than I expected
Are you kidding me? Our state has more than twice the number of lighthouses than the UK???? Really?
We have roughly a 3rd of the coastline...but more than double the number of light houses.
why do you need so many lighthouses?
It's weird that they're only on the coast. What's that about?
Question the accuracy of this. Think it's missing a few (St Albans at last) and there isn't a lighthouse at Bembridge/eastern end of the IoW nor any in the Solent.
Why are they all along the coast? Don’t they know it gets foggy in the middle of the country? Are they stupid?
"Turn the lights off", she said with passion burning in her eyes. "But what about all the boats?", said the lighthouse keeper.
So is it like a disco party off the coast from Belfast?
There is no lighthouse in Penzance. It’s in Pendeen.
It's cool how they bunched all those lighthouses together in the North Sea to form "UNITED KINGDOM."
Most of the coast
This is missing a LOT of major lights, and has many others in the wrong locations.
I beleive he one in Reading was decommissioned a while ago, owing to it being 70 miles from the coast. Similarly, the ones in Manchester, Leeds, and Shrewsbury aren't probable.
Quite impressed by that lone light in the middle of the Scottish Highlands where the name of the region should give you a clue as well.
why are there so few?
Visually nice, but useless for a map to show lighthouses in the UK.
Did AI make this or something?
But why did they make a circle of lighthouses in the south of scotland?
Portland bill seems to have moved to Wyke Regis
Can some please make this as a light fixture? It looks nice
I thought there would be more around Southampton.
Lundy?
I personally know of at least 2 missing, (Ilse of lundy). Others have reported similar about other places. Getting the impression that this map isn't exactly complete.
the UK looks so fucking small , it looks like you have to balance yourself walking across the area right above that circle of words
It’s bad luck to kill a seabird.
now do one with every house light
Fun fact: when the extradimensional entity known as “Yü’kaeh” forcibly overlayed with base reality in the 1730s, these lighthouses were constructed as reality anchors to limit its spread. Alas, recent sightings of Tesco locations in rural Normandy indicate their influence is waning.
Thank you, I am in the middle of the ocean, this will help me <3
Why is smeatons tower in Plymouth not there? Most famous lighthouse in the UK!
are there more maps like this for other regions of the world?
why on earth is there a lighthouse in birmingham?