English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Telegraph Hill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Fernhurst

Etymology

Telegraph Hill appears as Semiphore on Greenwood's map (1823) and was one of the series of signalling stations between Portsmouth and London in the Napoleonic wars.

Places in the same Parish