Eddystone is a group of rocks about 14 miles off the coast of England southwest of Plymouth, on which there is an important lighthouse (Eddystone Lighthouse) indicating the approaches to the English Channel.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee commented that Canada's foundations were as "strong as the foundations of Eddystone" (The Globe, 31 October 1864, 4).
The term "Foundations of Eddystone" was used as a chapter title in Frederick Vaughan's The Canadian Federalist Experiment: from Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).
Eddystone is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Eddystone was the site of the Baldwin Locomotive Works plant, once the largest manufacturer of steam locomotives in the world.
Eddystone gets its name from William Simpson who was so impressed by the Eddystone Lighthouse on a visit to England that he named the town and print works he'd founded after it.
The most famous lighthouse in the British Isles is probably the Eddystone, built on a small and very dangerous rock 13 miles south west of Plymouth.
The next man to get a patent charter for the Eddystone was a Captain Lovett who acquired the lease of the rock for 99 years, and by an Act of Parliament he was allowed to charge all ships passing a toll of 1d per ton, both inward and outward.
Eddystone Lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations Control Centre at Harwich in Essex.
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