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I have listed below all of the books that I could find on the internet, some of which have been used for reference. I have included a few modern books on the subject but not the latest as I find that the newest publications do not provide any new facts. In the main I have concentrated in with detailing the old and out of print books. Many I have seen come up for sale on eBay and achieve very high prices but never the less you should be able to see some of these in the reference section of major libraries.
| AUTHOR | YEAR | TITLE | PUBLISHER |
| ACT OF PARLIAMENT | 1786 | Kinnard Head; North Ranilsha; Scalpa; Mull of Kintyre | |
| ACT OF PARLIAMENT | 1834 | Mumbles | |
| ACT OF PARLIAMENT | 1836 | All lighthouses + 11 named | |
| ACT OF PARLIAMENT | 1825 | Trinity House | |
| ADAMS, W.H.Davenport | 1875 | Lighthouses and Lightships | Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd |
| ADAMS, W.H.Davenport | 1891 | The Story of our Lighthouses and Lightships | Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd |
| ADAMSON, Horatio A | 1904 | The Villiers Family - ….& Owners of the Lighthouse | Socy Antiquaries Newcastle |
| ADMIRALTY LIST OF LIGHTS | 1971 | Vol. A; British Isles | Hydrographic Dept. Taunton |
| ADMIRALTY LIST OF LIGHTS | 1981 | Vol. A; British Isles | Hydrographic Dept. Taunton |
| ADMIRALTY LIST OF LIGHTS | 1973 | Vol. A; British Isles | Hydrographic Dept. Taunton |
| ADMIRALTY LIST OF LIGHTS | 1970 | Vol. A; British Isles | Hydrographic Dept. Taunton |
| ARMSTRONG, Warren | 1964 | White for Danger | Elek Books Ltd, London |
| ARMSTRONG, Warren | 1958 | The True Book about Lighthouses and Lightships | Frederick Muller Ltd. London |
| BACON, Jean & Stuart | 1992 | Orford and Orford Ness | Segment Publications |
| BACON, Stuart R | 1996 | Southwold, Suffolk | Segment Publications |
| BARRETT, C.R.B | 1893 | The Trinity House of Deptford Strond | Lawrence & Bullen, London |
| BARRETT, Roger | 2006 | Start Point and its Lighthouse. | Orchard Publications |
| BARROW, Jas P | 1955 | Crosby Lighthouse 1839 - 1898 | Crosby & District Historial Soc |
| BATHURST, Bella | 1999 | The Lighthouse Stevensons | Harper Collins |
| BAXTER, Eric | 1969 | Safety at Sea | Bodley Head |
| BEAVER, Patrick | 1971 | A History of Lighthouses | Peter Davies Ltd., London |
| BECKERLEGGE, John J | 1936 | The Bell of the Lighthouse on Plymouth Breakwater | Devonshire Association etc |
| BLAKE, George | 1956 | Clyde Lighthouses; A Short History 1756 - 1956. | Jackson, Son & Co |
| BOARD OF TRADE | 1863 | Dungeness Lighthouses - Copy of Log re Electric Light | House of Commons |
| BOER, G de | 1984 | A History of the Spurn Lighthouses | East Yorks Local History Society |
| BOWEN, J.P | 1947 | British Lighthouses | Longmans, Green & Co. |
| BOWEN, J.P | 1937 | Lighthouses, Lightships and Buoys | The Mariner's Mirror |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1996 | Lighthouses, To light their way | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1997 | Skerries Rock, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1999 | Lizard Point, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1999 | Beachy Head, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1997 | Wolf Rock, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1997 | Longships, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1998 | The Smalls, Lighthouse of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1998 | Bishop Rock, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1997 | Eddystone, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin | 1996 | Lighthouses; Four Countries - One Aim | B & T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin & BLUER, Handel | 1998 | Pendeen, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin & TRETHEWEY, Ken | 1996 | Portland Bill, Lighthouses of England & Wales | B&T Publications |
| BOYLE, Martin & TRETHEWEY, Ken | 1996 | Needles Point | B & T Publications |
| BROWN, Cynthia Gaskell | 1988 | The Eddystone Lighthouses | Plymouth City Museum & Art |
| BUTTERFIELD, A.E | 1939 | Humber Conservancy Board; Report on Lighthouses etc | Humber Conservancy Board. |
| CALVERT, E.M | 1939 | The History of Hunstanton Lighthouse | Jarrold & Sons Ltd |
| CAMP, A.J | 1987 | Trinity House Petitions | Society of Genealogists |
| CARLYON HUGHES, B | 1939 | The History of Harwich Harbour, 1863 - 1939 | Standard Print.&Publish. Co. |
| CARPENTER, Edward | 1998 | Dungeness Lighthouses | Margaret F Bird Associates |
| CARTER, C G & BRENTNALL, H C | 1952 | Man The World Over | Basil Blackwell, Oxford |
| CARTER, George Goldsmith | 1946 | Looming Lights | Constable |
| CARTER, George Goldsmith | 1953 | The Goodwin Sands | Constable |
| CHADWICK, Lee | 1974 | Lighthouses and Lightships | Dennis Dobson |
| CHASE, Mary Ellen | 1965 | The Story of Lighthouses | W.W.Norton & Co |
| COLES, K. Adlard | 1963 | Channel Harbours & Anchorages (Solent to Portland) | Edward Arnold & Co |
| COLES, K. Adlard | 1959 | Creeks and Harbours of the Solent | Edward Arnold & Co |
| COLES, K. Adlard | 1968 | The Shell Pilot Guide to the South Coast Harbours | Faber & Faber Ltd |
| COLLINSON, Don | 2004 | The Dart Estuary Lights; Marks & Lighthouses | Kingswear Historians |
| COOKE; Arthur O | 1917 | Life at Sea – A Week on the Eddystone | Hodder and Stoughton, London |
| COOKE; Arthur O | 1917 | Ships & Sea Faring – Shown to the Children | T.C & E.C.Jack Ltd |
| COOPER, Glynis | 2000 | Rosevear; A desert island story | Historic Occasions |
| CORBIN, Thomas | 1926 | The Romance of Lighthouses & Life Boats | Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, London |
| CURTIS, Bill | 1993 | The Lighthouses of Fleetwood; A Brief History | E.Curtis |
| DE MARE, Eric | 1973 | The Nautical Style | Architectural Press Ltd |
| DEMPSTER, Dorothy | 1959 | Get to Know; Docks and Harbours | Methuen & Co. Ltd |
| DICKENS, Charles | 1882 | Dickens' Dictionary of the Thames | MacMillan & Co |
| DOUGLASS, James Nicholas | 1985 | The Building of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse | Journal of the Trevithick Socy No.12 |
| DOUGLASS; William T | 1892 | The Bishop Rock Lighthouses | Institution of Civil Engineers |
| EDINBURGH REVIEW | 1862 | Wrecks; Life boats, and Lighthouses | The Leonard Scott Publishing Co |
| EDWARDS, E. Price | 1884 | Our Seamarks | Longmans, Green & Co. |
| EDWARDS, E. Price | 1882 | The Eddystone Lighthouses | Simpkin, Marshall & Co |
| EMMERSON, George S | 1969 | The Stevensons - Pioneers of Coastal Lights | David & Charles Ltd |
| ETHERTON, P.T. & BARLOW, V | 1950 | Tempestuous Isle | Lutterworth Press, London. |
| EVANS, Robert | 1909 | Model Lighthouse for use in Schools | HMSO Patent Office |
| EYRE; Kathleen | 1960 | Sand Grown; The Lytham St. Annes Story | Weaver & Youles |
| FINDLAY, Alexander George | 1892 | The Lighthouses of the World and Fog Signals | Richard Holmes Laurie, London |
| FOX, Howard | 1879 | The Lizard Lighthouses | Royal Institution of Cornwall |
| FREEMAN, Eric | 1958 | The Solva Saga - Smalls lighthouse | |
| GARLAND, Rosemary | 1961 | Lighthouses; How Things Developed | Educational Supply Association |
| GRANT, Kay | 1969 | Robert Stevenson, Engineer and Sea Builder | Meredith Press, New York |
| GROSVENOR, J.S | 1959 | Trinity House | Staples Press |
| HAGUE, Douglas B | 1994 | Lighthouses of Wales | Royal Commission etc |
| HAGUE, Douglas B & CHRISTIE, R | 1995 | Lighthouses; Their Architecture, History & etc | Gomer Press |
| HALE, Stephen L | 1984 | Lighthouses and Lightships of East Kent | East Kent Maritime Trust |
| HAMILTON FYFE, J | 1874 | Triumphs of Invention & Discovery | T. Nelson & Sons, London |
| HARDY, W.J | 1895 | Lighthouses; Their History and Romance | Religious Tract Society |
| HART DAVIS, Adam | 2002 | Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse | Sutton Publishing Ltd |
| HELLOWELL, John | 1998 | A Tour of Manx Lighthouses | Peter Williams Associates |
| HILLS, Ian | 1988 | The Lighthouse and the Battleship (Heugh Hartlepool) | CIJA Publications |
| HOBBS, J.S | 1972 | The British Channel Pilot 1859 | D Bradford Barton Ltd |
| HOLDEN PIKE, G | 1897 | Among the Sailors; during the life and reign of the Queen | Hodder and Stoughton, London |
| HOLLAND, Clive | 1908 | From the North Foreland to Penzance | Chatto and Windus, London |
| HOLMES, F.M | 1896 | Celebrated Mechanics & their Achievements-Lighthouses | S.W.Partridge & Co, London |
| HUGHES, Margaret | 2004 | Anglesey Lighthouses and Lifeboats | Carreg Gwalch |
| HUME, John R | 1997 | Harbour Lights; Scottish Vernacular Buildings | SCV Buildings Working Group |
| JACKSON, Derrick | 1975 | Lighthouses of England and Wales | David & Charles Ltd |
| JAMES, Jude | 2003 | Hurst Castle; An Illustrated History | St Barbe Museum |
| JERROME, E. G | 1966 | Lighthouses, Lightships and Buoys | Basil Blackwell, Oxford |
| JOHNSON, Eric G | 1990 | The Life and Times of Leasowe Lighthouse | Friends of Leasowe |
| JONES, Ted | 1991 | Stranded on the Longships - (in the year 1966) | Merlin Books Ltd, Braunton |
| KILSHAW, William | 1954 | The Friendly Lights | Not given |
| KING, John W (Staff Commander RN) | 1867 | The Pilots Handbook for the English Channel | J.D.Potter, London |
| KITTON, F G | 1892 | A Visit to the Eddystone Lighthouse | The Strand Magazine |
| LANE, A J | 1997 | The Eddystone's Lighthouses | P.L.M. Ltd |
| LANGHAM, Anthony & Myrtle | 1970 | Lundy | David & Charles Ltd |
| LANGMAID, Kenneth | 1966 | The Sea, Thine Enemy | Jarrolds Publishers Ltd |
| LANGTON JONES, R | 1950 | Silent Sentinels - The History of Lighthouses | Frederick Muller Ltd. London |
| LEA, John | 1910 | Danger Signals | Wells Gardner, Darton & Co |
| LEE; David | 2006 | The Southwold Lighthouses | Southwold Museum |
| LINNEY, A.G | 1933 | Lure and Lore of London's River | Sampson Low, Marston & Co |
| LINNEY, A.G | 1929 | Peepshow of the Port of London | Sampson Low, Marston & Co |
| LONG, Neville | 1983 | Lights of East Anglia | Terence Dalton Ltd |
| LUCAS, E.V | 1931 | Visibility Good; Essays and Excursions | Methuen & Co Ltd |
| MAIR, Craig | 1978 | A Star for Seamen (Stevenson Family of Engineers) | John Murray |
| MAJDALANY, Fred | 1959 | The Red Rocks of Eddystone | Longmans, Green & Co. |
| MAJOR, Alan | 2000 | The Kentish Lights | S B Publications |
| MARSHALL, Emma | 1894 | The First Light on the Eddystone | Seeley & Co, Essex St, London |
| MARTIN, Nancy | 1977 | Sea and River Pilots | Terence Dalton Ltd |
| MASON, John | 1957 | The History of Trinity House of Leith | McKenzie Vincent & Co, Glasgow |
| MATTERS, G | 1980s | The Story of the Eddystone Lighthouses | Privately published. |
| MAYO, Walter H | 1905 | The Trinity House London Past and Present | Smith, Elder & Co, London |
| McCORMICK, W.H | 1936 | The Modern Book of Lighthouses &c | A & C Black Ltd, London |
| McNEE, Tom & ANGUS, David | 1985 | Seaham Harbour, The First 100 years 1828 - 1928 | xx |
| MEAD, Hilary P | 1947 | Trinity House | Sampson Low, Marston & Co |
| MEDLAND, John C | 1995 | Alum Bay and the Needles | Coach House Publications |
| MEDLAND, John C | 1986 | Shipwrecks of the Isle of Wight | West Island Printers Ltd |
| MERRET, L.H | Smeaton's Tower and the Plymouth Breakwater | Reprint from Maritime History | |
| MITCHELL, Peter | 1999 | The Plymouth Breakwater | Submerged Productions |
| MOAKES, L | 1946 | History of Travel & Communication - Book 2 | John Crowther (Educational) Ltd |
| MOIR, David R | 1958 | The Birth and History of Trinity House, Newcastle | McKenzie Vincent & Co, Glasgow |
| MOORE, Mary F | 1962 | Life Boats and Life Saving | MacMillan & Co Ltd, London |
| MORRISON, Paul & RYLANCE, Tony | 1989 | Coquet Island, Northumberland | Belfry Publicity, Newcastle |
| MUDD, David | 1978 | Cornish Sea Lights | Bossiney Books |
| MYRES, T Harrison | 1896 | Lighthouses, Past and Present | Guardian Printing Works |
| NAISH, John | 1985 | Seamarks; Their History and Development | Stanford Maritime Ltd |
| NATIONAL TRUST | 1995 | Souter Lighthouse and The Leas | The National Trust |
| NAVILLUS, C.H | 1908 | The Eddystone Lighthouses. | Western Morning News Co. Ltd. |
| NICHOLSON, Christopher | 1983 | Rock Lighthouses of Great Britain | Patrick Stephens |
| NITON WOMEN'S INSTITUTE | 1959 | Niton Calling | Women's Institute |
| NIX, Michael | 1982 | The Cruel Coast of North Devon | Badger Books |
| NOALL, Cyril | 1968 | Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks | D Bradford Barton Ltd |
| O'RIORDAN, Ian | 1982 | The Eddystone Lighthouse Salt in Plymouth Museum | Plymouth City Museum & Art |
| OTTER, R.A | 1994 | Civil Engineering Heritage - Southern England | Institution of Civil Engineers |
| PARKER, Tony | 1986 | Lighthouse | Eland, London |
| PEARSON, Lynn F | 1998 | Lighthouses | Shire Publications Ltd |
| PHILLIPS, Godfrey W | 1949 | Lighthouse and Lightship &c | Robert Ross & Co Ltd |
| REED, Olwen | 1968 | The Story of Lighthouses, Lightships and Lifeboats | Ladybird Books Ltd |
| REES, John S | 1949 | History of the Liverpool Pilotage Service | Not given |
| RITCHIE NOAKES, Nancy | 1988 | Jesse Hartley; Dock Engineer Liverpool 1824-60 | National Museums Merseyside |
| ROBERTS, Elizabeth G | 1984 | They All Lived in Lighthouses | Gee & Son Ltd |
| ROBINSON, John and Diane | 2007 | Lighthouses of Liverpool Bay | Tempus |
| SANDERSON, Robert | 1990s? | The Four Eddystone Lighthouses | Not given |
| SHARP, Eric W | 1986 | Lighthouses of the Channel Islands | Toucan Press |
| SHEPPARD, Thomas | 1912 | The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast | A.Brown & Sons Ltd |
| SKEMPTON, A.W | 1981 | John Smeaton, FRS | Thomas Telford Ltd, London |
| SMILES, Samuel | 1904 | Lives of the Engineers Smeaton and Rennie | John Murray |
| SMITH, Ian | 1999 | Northumbrian Coastline | Sandhill Press |
| SPENCE, Lewis | 1928 | The Coastwise Lights of Britain | Wonderful Britain - Part 18 |
| STEVENSON, David | 1864 | Lighthouses | David and Charles Black |
| STEVENSON, D.Alan | 1959 | The World's Lighthouses before 1820 | Oxford University Press |
| STEVENSON, Eva | 1995 | The History of Lighthouses | Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse |
| STEVENSON, Robert | 1946 | English Lighthouse Tours 1801, 1813, 1818 | Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd |
| STEVENSON, Robert | 1931 | The Bell Rock Lighthouse | Cambridge University Press |
| STEVENSON; D. Alan | 1946 | The Engineering Work of the Clyde Lighthouses Trust | Inst of Engineers & Shipbuilders |
| STEWART, Ann | 1970s | The Lighthouse Keeper | Hamish Hamilton, London |
| STOREY, Arthur | 1971 | Hull Trinity House History - River Humber 1512 - 1908 | Ridings Publishing Co |
| STOREY, Arthur | 1967 | Trinity House of Kingston upon Hull | Trinity House, Kingston upon Hull |
| SURTEES, John | 1999 | Beachy Head | S B Publications |
| SUTTON JONES, Kenneth | 1998 | To Safely Guide Their Way | B&T Publications |
| SUTTON JONES, Kenneth | 1985 | Pharos, The Lighthouse Yesterday Today Tomorrow | Michael Russell Ltd |
| TALBOT, Frederick A | 1913 | Lightships and Lighthouses | William Heinemann |
| TARRANT, Michael | 1993 | Cornwall's Lighthouse Heritage | Twelveheads Press |
| TARRANT, Michael | 1998 | Trinity House, The Super Silent Service | Gomer Press |
| TERNSTROM; Myrtle | 2009 | Light Over Lundy | Whittles Publishing |
| THOMAS, Charles | 1998 | To The Lighthouse, The Story of Godrevy Light | Summaries and Plain Digits |
| THOMPSON, A.G | 1939 | The Thames from Tower to Tilbury | Bradley & Son Ltd |
| THOMPSON, A.G | 1934 | The Romance of London River | Bradley & Son Ltd |
| THOMPSON, Capt. D | 1987 | The Hull Trinity House School 1787 - 1987 | Not given |
| TRINITY HOUSE | 2002 | Highlights of the Coast | Jarrold Publishing |
| TRINITY HOUSE | 1979 | Trinity House London Booklet | Reedprint |
| UNDERWOOD, Charlie | 1993 | The Great Light; The Orford Ness Lighthouses | Segment Publications |
| VENTNOR LOCAL HISTORY | - | Beacons and Lighthouses in South Wight | Ventnor Local History Society |
| VERLEY, Arthur and Claire | 1938 | Thirty Two South Coast Harbours | Edward Arnold & Co |
| WALMSLEY, Leo | 1942 | British Ports and Harbours | William Collins |
| WELCH, C | 1958 | Sir Edward Turnour's Lighthouses at Orford | Suffolk Arch. 28, Part 1, pp63-74 |
| WILDING, John | 1955 | Lighthouses and other talks to children. | Lutterworth Press, London. |
| WILKINSON, David & BOYLE, Martin | 2001 | Francis Frith's Lighthouses | Frith Book Co Ltd |
| WILLIAMS, Archibald | 1914 | A Book of the Sea | Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd |
| WILLIAMS, Peter | 2001 | Beacon on the Rock | Aurum Press |
| WILSON, Bryce | 1975 | The Lighthouses of Orkney | Stromness Museum |
| WILSON, W Eric & W.T | 1968 | Pilot's Guide to the English Channel | Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson |
| WILSON, W.E & BRANSON, D | 1952 | Pilots Guide to the Thames Estuary & Norfolk Broads | Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson |
| WHORMBY, John | 1746 | An Account of the Corporation of Trinity House and Seamarks in General | Smith & Ebbs, Tower Hill - Reprint 1861 |
| WOOD, Andrew | 1960 | The Lighthouse | MacMillan & Co, London |
| WOODMAN, Richard | 1985 | View from the Sea | Century Publishing Ltd |
| WOODMAN, Richard & WILSON, Jane | 2002 | The Lighthouses of Trinity House | Thomas Reed Publications |
| WOODS, E.C | 1944 | Some History of the Coastwise Lights of Lancs & Cheshire | History Socy of Lancs & Cheshire |
| WRIGHT, W.H.K | 1884 | The Eddystone Lighthouses and their history. | John Smith, Plymouth |
| WRYDE, J Saxby | 1913 | British Lighthouses; Their History and Romance | T Fisher Unwin |
| Anon. | 1882 | The Story of John Smeaton and Eddystone Lighthouse | Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd |
| Anon. | 1920 | Brown's Nautical Almanac | Not given |
| Anon. | 1914 | North Sea Pilot (Berwick to North Foreland) | Admiralty |
| Anon. | 1947 | Channel Pilot (Scilly Isles to North Foreland) | Admiralty |
| Anon. | 1948 | West Coast Pilot (Scilly Isles to Mull of Galloway) | Admiralty |
| Anon. | 1948 | North Sea Pilot (Berwick to North Foreland) | Admiralty |
| Anon. | 1975 | Reed's Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables | Thomas Reed Ltd |
| Anon. | 1935 | Brown's Sailing Directions for the East Coast | Brown Son and Ferguson Ltd |
| Anon. | 1998 | 137 Steps; The Story of St Mary's Lighthouse | North Tyneside Council |
| Anon. | 1972 | Getting to know about LIGHTHOUSES. | Photo Precision Ltd, St. Ives. |
| Anon. | 1948 | Reed's Nautical Almanac | Not given |
| Anon. | 1849 | A History of Wonderful Inventions | Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand |
| Anon. | xxx | Brown's Bridge Book for the Irish Sea & Bristol Channel | Brown Son and Ferguson Ltd |
| Anon. | 1949 | The Wonder Book of Ships | Ward, Locke & Co. London |
| Anon. | 1931 | Brown's Nautical Almanac | Not given |
| Anon. | 1960 | Brown's Nautical Almanac | Not given |
| Anon. | 1963 | Brown's Nautical Almanac | Not given |
| Anon. | 1935 | North Sea Pilot (Berwick to Cape Wrath) | Admiralty |
| Anon. | 1933 | West Coast Pilot (Scilly Isles to Mull of Galloway) | Admiralty |
| Anon. | 1949 | How the other man lives | Odhams Press Ltd |
| Anon. | 1902 | Institute of Junior Engineers - Record of Transactions | Institute of Junior Engineers |