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Light Still Burning: The Passionate Few Keeping the West Country's Lighthouse Legacy Alive

Light Still Burning: The Passionate Few Keeping the West Country's Lighthouse Legacy Alive

From the craggy headlands of Cornwall to the windswept shores of Devon, a dwindling band of keepers and community campaigners are fighting tooth and nail to preserve the West Country's beloved lighthouse towers. Automation may have silenced the keeper's lamp-room routine decades ago, but these coastal sentinels are far from finished — not if their guardians have anything to say about it.