2017

SW8331 : Black Rock

taken 7 years ago, near to St Mawes, Cornwall, England

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Black Rock
Black Rock
According to legend, St Mawes, the tenth son of an Irish king was going about his business of preaching one day when he was interrupted by the continued barking of a seal. His patience ran dry and so, he hurled a large rock at the creature. The rock missed and to this day, so legend says, the rock remains, wedged on top of a cluster of black rocks halfway across the entrance to Falmouth harbour (LinkExternal link Visit Falmouth).

Black Rock was previously known as Falmouth Rock or Parson’s Rock. During the reign of Charles II, the Rector of Falmouth had a pole erected on Black Rock to warn ships of the danger posed by the isolated rock. The large elm "as thick around as a man" was placed in a hole in the rock and secured by molten lead. A conspicuous red pennant was flown from the pole. Work on building a beacon on the rock began in 1834, three years after St Anthony's lighthouse was built. Masons had to level off a 20 foot square base on the shoal and foundations for the granite structure went six feet down into the rock floor. The conical beacon is 37 foot high, 20 foot wide at the base and four foot wide at its apex. The beacon carries a flashing light with range of three miles (LinkExternal link The Falmouth Packet).

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SW8331, 24 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 29 May, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 3 August, 2017
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 833 316 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:8.7153N 5:2.0028W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 834 317
View Direction
West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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