Berriedale Castle (6 of 6)
I have driven past here many times over many years, and always noticed the two towers on the hillside on the south side of Berriedale (right skyline of photo).  I knew that despite their crenellations they were nothing to do with the castle, because they are clearly too recent, so I assumed they were just memorials to someone or other.  But no, I was wrong!  They were built to house lights designed to show fishermen the location of the river mouth and are known as the Duke's Candlesticks after the Duke of Portland, who ordered and paid for their construction.  If you sail towards the coast until the lights are in line with one another and then turn left, you sail into the river mouth!  Brilliant!  And people say the aristocracy have no use!
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