Lumps Fort TelegraphLumps Fort Telegraph, Portsmouth |
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telegraph station, semaphore telegraph |
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parish: county: coords: |
Southsea Portsmouth Hampshire SZ657983 |
refce: |
JandMN |
commentary: |
The dog leg in the line, via Lumps Fort, was to avoid the smoke of the town.
It was esat of the present canoe lake, in the angle of Lumps Lane (now Easatern
Villas Road) and the sea front. |
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refce: |
Holmes, T W: 1983: Semaphore, The: Stockwell, Arthur (Ifracombe, Devon):: ISBN 0
7223 1629 1 |
old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXXIII.8 |