Smeaton's Tower Smeaton's Tower Smeaton's Tower is a memorial to celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse. A major step forward in lighthouse design, Smeaton's structure was in use from 1759 to 1877, until erosion of the ledge it was built upon forced new construction. The tower was largely dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, Devon, where it stands today. The Royal Society recommended Smeaton for the task, and he modelled the lighthouse on an oak tree. He rediscovered the use of hydraulic lime, a form of concrete used in Roman times. The
Smeaton House Smeaton House Smeaton House, also known as Smeaton Castle, and now as Dalkeith Home Farm, is a courtyard castle dating from the fifteenth century, about north of Dalkeith, and south of Inveresk in East Lothian, Scotland. In 1450 the lands on which Smeaton Castle are built were the property of the Abbey of Dunfermline. Thereafter they passed to the Richardsons. The buildings now form part of a farm. The castle courtyard had rounded towers, but only two remain standing, with the curtain wall between them. These are the two western towers. While one tower has been reduced in height the