Lumps Fort Telegraph

Lumps Fort Telegraph, Portsmouth
telegraph station, semaphore telegraph

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.
previous station Camp Down Telegraph, Havant
on Portsmouth Semaphore Telegraph Line
next station Portsmouth Magazine Telegraph, Portsmouth
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

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001