This is a wonderful little chapel run by volunteers from the Rotary Club Its a short, steep climb to the top with stunning views over all the little harbours round Ilfracombe. It was a chapel, a lighthouse & a home. From the Middle Ages it maintained a light to guide shipping into the harbour. It’s still a working lighthouse today and is said to be the oldest in the country. When Henry V111 dissolved the monasteries in 1540 St Nicholas ceased to be a chapel. In the Census of 1851, the lighthouse keeper & wife were registered as living in the Lantern Hill Lighthouse together with eleven of their children. He is described as a mariner. There is a cheap car park at the foot of Lantern hill.