A little bit tricky this week, much to research and check. Mr Fautley has upped his game but near as I can figure it, the most likely answers this week are:
Q1. Lundy Island
Q2. Shutter Point
From the initial clues given, it looks like the author is on the Landing beach at Lundy island (the island is named after a bird, Lundy may be a Norse word for Puffin). A pebble's throw from there, lies a 52 foot lighthouse which was constructed around 1897 (Lundy island south lighthouse). Another lighthouse, which he says should be visible at night and which lies twenty miles to the east, is most likely Bull point lighthouse (36ft high), a little ways to the north of Woolacombe, in Devon.
Walking north west from the Lundy island south lighthouse, takes you close to a castle, which was built by Henry III (who inherited the throne when he was nine) and thence to a church called St Helena's, which was designed by an architect called John Norton (born c 1823). Norton specialized in the Gothic style of architecture.
Travelling south west from there, takes us to a rock called 'the Shutter' at Shutter point and it was here that a 'great ship', a Spanish galleon no less, in the 1855 novel 'Westward Ho!', written by Charles Kingsley, was wrecked. This rock has destroyed a few real ships and the island is also reputed to have the remains of a few crashed Heinkel bombers on it. Going north from there brings us to the old lighthouse on Chapel Hill, 96ft high and built c1819-1820. The old light is close to the highest point on the island (142 metres or around 465 feet). There is a third lighthouse at the north end of Lundy island and this is most likely the one which the author did not have time to visit.
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