Smeaton Square

One of Plymouth's newer developments, in Efford, off the top of Blandford Road, is a small estate where the streets are all named after lighthouses, including the names of the architects of all four of the lighthouses that, in turn, stood on the Eddystone Rocks - Winstanley, Rudyerd, Smeaton and Douglass.

Of the four Douglass's is the one out there today, but the stump of Smeaton's lighthouse can still be seen alongside it and the rest of that tower can still be seen on Plymouth Hoe, where it was rebuilt in the early 1880s.

John Smeaton's fine structure was also immortalised in another way when, in 1860, it was incorporated in the design of our bronze coinage. In 1895 it disappeared, only to be re-instated in 1937 where it remained until decimalization in 1971.