Poyle Hill Telegraph

Poyle Hill Telegraph (Surrey)
telegraph station, semaphore telegraph

county:
coords:
Hogsback, The
Surrey
SU893482
refce: JandMN

commentary: The Plymouth line branched off the Portsmouth line at Chatley Heath, to Worplesdon, then this station.
The site is on the Hog's Back, by the A31 road Guildford to Farnham; the site is now the Hog's Back Hotel.
on Plymouth Semaphore Telegraph Line
next station River Hill Telegraph, Binsted
refce: Holmes, T W: 1983: Semaphore, The: Stockwell, Arthur (Ifracombe, Devon):: ISBN 0 7223 1629 1

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001