A town is notable for its collection of lighthouses, including the Spherical Tower beacon light of 1829, the Pillar Lighthouse & a Beacin on legs. Burnham is today the popular seaside resort, and is house to the shortest pier in Britain.

The total of marble carvings designed by Sir Christopher Wren, for the personal chapel in the Palace of Westminster can be now seen in the parish church of Saint Andrew. It were moved to Burnham around 1820 after having originally been taken to Westminster Abbey in 1706. These sculptures formed a share of an altar accredited by James II within 1685 & were sculpted by Grinling Gibbons and his assistant Arnold Quellin, the Belgian creative person of Antwerp. What a single understands at Burnham is single a shcome of a whole project, a independent panels are behind a altar by using a remainder of the fragments displayed at various web pages in the independent body of the church. It 1st occupied a whole of a east wall behind the altar.