Douglas Head

General

Current facilities

• Douglas Head Lighthouse
• Manx Radio

  Historic facilities

• Douglas Head Amphitheatre
• Grand Union Camera Obscura
• The Black Mast
• Warwick Tower
• Douglas Head Funicular Railway
• Douglas Head Marine Drive Railway
• Douglas Head Restaurant

  Memorials

• A statue of RNLI founder and Isle of Man resident Sir William Hillary who was the man behind the building of the Tower of Refuge on Conister Rock
• A large stone anchor is dedicated to the contribution and sacrifice made by Manx people during the Battle of Trafalgar and was placed on the headland marking the bi-centenary of that event
• A granite bollard and plinth from the harbourside in the Isle of Whithorn, giving thanks from the families and friends of those lost their lives in the Solway Harvester whose bodies were recovered by the Manx Government contrary to previous maritime tradition

  Trivia

• During the Second World War Douglas Head was the location of a major radar station called HMS Valkyrie
• Extensive radar research, development and training of systems and operators took place here
• Manx Radio, broadcasting from the head, was the first licensed independent station in the British Isles
• Marine Drive was a toll road, and the impressive arched gateway was the toll gate
• Evidence of the tramway exists in the landside arch where the overhead cable was attached to the stonework
• The road runs the full length of Marine Drive however is closed to through traffic due to rock instability
• Sections of the 1999 film Waking Ned were filmed on Marine Drive