Beacon Hill TelegraphBeacon Hill Telegraph (West Sussex) |
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telegraph station, shutter telegraph |
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county: |
West Sussex |
refce: |
JandMN |
commentary: |
Beacon Hill shutter telegraph station was at South Harting, West Sussex,
795ft up on the South Downs. It was a little site of Casey's farm on the north
edge of the down. The station is 4 miles SW of the station at Blackdown. The
London to Portsmouth and London to Plymouth shutter telegraph lines diverged
from the station. |
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Portsmouth Shutter Telegraph Line |
next station |
Portsdown Hill Telegraph, Havant Later, about 1816, it became a semaphore telegraph station |
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Plymouth Shutter Telegraph Line |
next station |
Chalton Hill Telegraph, Clanfield |
refce: |
Wilson, Geoffrey: 1976: Old Telegraphs, The: Phillimore:: ISBN 0 900592 76 6 |
otherwise: Beacon House - telegraph station, shutter telegraph, semaphore telegraph |
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refce: |
Holmes, T W: 1983: Semaphore, The: Stockwell, Arthur (Ifracombe, Devon):: ISBN 0
7223 1629 1 795ft, Beacon Hill, north shoulder of Harting Down, by Casey's farm, 1.5m from South Harting, nothing left, Beacon House nearby |