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Photo by Rabbi WP Thinrod Crow Point Lighthouse gives a guide to vessels navigating the Taw and Torridge estuary in North Devon. It is a small tubular steel structure with the light just 7.6 metres above Mean High Water. Originally powered by acetylene gas, Crow Point was converted to solar power in 1987. There are specified rates of dues to to be paid (voluntarily) by the owners of passing vessels.
A hulk on the sand dunes taken 2008 Photo by Rabbi WP Thinrod Low Spring tides expose large sand banks known as The Neck. The light, marking the junction of the Taw, Torridge and the seaway, has seen less commercial traffic since the demise of Yelland Power Station across the river. The light is operated by Trinity House and was converted to solar power in 1987. History There were two earlier lighthouses near this site, that worked as a high and low pair, but no remains exist now of either of these.
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Photo by Phillip Halling Image taken at grid ref SS463327 where the land joins the sands going out to Crow Point. The photo shows a junction of paths at the southern end of Braunton Sands, the main route of the South West Coastal Path follows this track with a bridleway leading off it to the mouth of the Taw/Torridge estuary.
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Derek Harper
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SS465323
Salt marsh near Crow Point, an area of salt-loving plants in the lee of Crow Point on the Taw estuary.
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