- Visit one of Plymouth's most iconic buildings. A centrepiece on Plymouth's Hoe, Smeaton's Tower offers fantastic views from its Lantern Room.
- The lighthouse in question is called Smeaton’s Tower these days and has been standing in a park in Plymouth for well over a century at this stage.
- Discover the best hikes and paths to Smeaton's Tower in Plymouth, South West England. Explore it on the map and plan your own route to Smeaton's Tower.
- In 1913 a small bomb was placed in Smeaton’s Tower’s doorway by suffragettes campaigning for votes for women. Fortunately, the bomb did not go off.
- Originally built on the Eddystone reef in 1759, Smeaton's Tower was moved the 14 miles to the dry land of Plymouth Hoe in the 1880s.
- Smeaton’s Tower is iconic and is both central to Plymouth imagery and central in Plymouth itself, standing high on the Hoe overlooking the sound.
- Smeaton’s Tower. Smeaton’s Tower is a memorial to celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse.
- Smeaton’s Tower is a focal point on Plymouth’s Hoe which is now recognised as one of the most renowned landmarks in Plymouth.
- Now standing at 72 foot high, Smeaton's Tower offers fantastic views of Plymouth Sound and the city from its lantern room which, along with the rest of the building...
- Smeaton's Tower, Plymouth (must see). John Smeaton was an 18th-century mechanical engineer and physicist called the "father" of civil engineering.