Beacon Hill Telegraph

Beacon Hill Telegraph (West Sussex)
telegraph station, shutter telegraph
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.
on Portsmouth Shutter Telegraph Line
next station Portsdown Hill Telegraph, Havant
Later, about 1816, it became a semaphore telegraph station
on 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
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

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001