Weymouth Walk - Portland Bill Lighthouse Walk
Walking
Portland Bill
Portland
Dorset
DT5 2JT
Tel: 01305 785747
From the TIC, catch the 501 service (Summer only). Please check with the TIC for details. Services to Portland Bill take approx. 40 minutes.
The bus will drop you at the northern end of the car park at Portland Bill. Leaving the first lighthouse behind you, join the South West Coast Path heading north towards the Coastwatch tower.
Continue on the footpath along the west cliff of Portland. You will reach a junction with a footpath signed off to the right. Take this path to the right and follow around the edge of the field. At the point on this path, you can see all 3 lighthouses at the same time. You can also see remains of a medieval strip field cultivation system, commonly known at ‘lawnsheds’. A foot path then leads you back down towards the road.
On reaching the road either continue down the footpath towards the sea, past the Lower Lighthouse, or return to the car park by walking alongside the road, passing the Pulpit Inn. Return to the northern end of the car park to catch a return bus.
THE OLD LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – This lighthouse is one of the top Bird Observatory’s in the country and is owned and operated by the Portland Bird Observatory. It was opened by the naturalist Sir Peter Scott in 1961.
PORTLAND BILL LIGHTHOUSE – The first and last lighthouse on your walk. It was built between 1903-1906 to replace the high low lighthouses, by Wakeham Bros of Plymouth, to house the latest apparatus. By mid-1905, they had completed the 35 metre high masonry tower, when Chance & Co of Birmingham arrived to hoist their great lantern on top. The revolving lensed were designed to send a candlepower beam 18 miles on a clear night.
The lighthouse was painted in bright red and white livery, which has been the tourists symbol of Portland ever since. The lighthouse had cost £13,000. The lighthouse was de-manned on 18th March 1996 and is now fully automatic.
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