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        • What is a National Landscape?
        • What we do
        • How we are funded
        • Blackdown Hills Partnership
        • Management Group
        • Meet the team
        • Jobs
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Culmstock Beacon is one of a chain of Elizabethan beacons used for lighting fires to warn of advancing enemies, for example, The Spanish Armada.

The beehive-shaped structure was built of flint. It was rebuilt in 1870 after the collapse of the earlier one.
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