Dunston Pillar

📍 Lincolnshire, England

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About

Dunston Pillar is a Grade II listed stone tower in Lincolnshire, England and a former 'land lighthouse'. It stands beside the A15 road approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Lincoln near the junction of the B1178, in the parish of Dunston, north of Sleaford. Closed to the public. On private land.

Commissioned in 1751 by Sir Francis Dashwood (founder of the Hellfire Club) to guide travellers across the treacherous and robbery-plagued Lincolnshire Heath. The tower originally stood 92 feet tall with a lantern on top. In 1810 a statue of George III was added. The tower was later reduced in height and the statue removed. Described in 1843 as the only land lighthouse in England. Now a Scheduled Monument.