Guarding the Kings Road

Built in 1894, the Black Nore Point Lighthouse overlooks the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary. It was built by Trinity House to aid shipping as it approached the docks at Avonmouth and the River Severn. It has a tapered cylindrical skeletal tower with observation room, balcony and lantern. It juts out into the narrow channel, named "the Kings Road", which is the only passage connecting the port of Bristol with the open sea. For 116 years, through World Wars and countless storms, Black Nore Lighthouse has been marking the way for this critical sea passage. until it was decomissioned in 2010.