The Inchcape Rock
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"The Inchcape Rock" is a ballad written by English poet Robert Southey. Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath to install a warning bell on Inchcape,
Bell Rock Lighthouse was built on the Inchcape reef in the early 19th century, and is named after the legend of the abbot's bell
Bell Rock Lighthouse
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The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock in the North
The Inchcape Rock
…Cervantes. There was no warning device on Inchcape Rock in modern times until 1810, when Robert Stevenson and John Rennie completed construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, but Southey's poem popularised the legend of the bell…
Engraving of the lighthouse under construction in 1809, next to the temporary beacon that was constructed alongside it to accommodate the workers and serve as a temporary lighthouse.
Watercolour of the lighthouse by J. M. W. Turner (1819), Scottish National Gallery
HMS Argyll