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Plymouth Semaphore Telegraph Line
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telegraph line, sempahore telegraph
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Surrey
West Sussex
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Binsted
Four Marks
West Tisted
Itchen Valley
Hursley
Sherfield English
Hampshire
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Wiltshire
Dorset
Devon
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JandMN
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Extension of the semaphore telegraph system to Plymouth was reported in The
Times, 15 April 1822:-
An immediate survey is to take place for the most eligible situation to erect
telegraphs between London and Plymouth.
On 13 July 1825 Barrow instructed the Navy Board to have 30 semaphore
apparatuses ready for the line. The line branched from the Portsmouth line at
Chatley Heath, to Worplesdon, Poyle Hill on the Hogsback, then:-
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Poyle Hill Telegraph (Surrey)
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River Hill Telegraph, Binsted
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Farringdon Common Telegraph, Four Marks
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Merifield Telegraph, West Tisted
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Cheesefoot Head Telegraph, Itchen Valley
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Farley Chamberlayne Telegraph, Hursley
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Sherfield English Telegraph, Sherfield English
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Woodfield Green Telegraph (Wiltshire)
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Rushmore Hill Telegraph (Wiltshire)
and, in plans, on through Dorset to Devon. The line was never completed;
progress slowed in the late 1820s and ceased in 1831.
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Holmes, T W: 1983: Semaphore, The: Stockwell, Arthur (Ifracombe, Devon):: ISBN 0
7223 1629 1
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