[ Salcombe Hill, Sidmouth]: West Down Beacon, Budleigh Salterton ([1853?])
George Townsend
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| Devon | West Country Studies | S SC0316 |
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BUDLEIGH SALTERTON and its vicinity: a handbook for visitors and tourists. Salterton: W. Baker, 1845. 2nd edition. p. 19.Crossing a small brook which here falls down the ravine from the higher lands into the sea, we ascend by an undulating pathway to the summit of West Down, which bears the name of the Beacon, from the circumstance that during the late continental war a telegraphic station was fixed here, forming one of a chain between the Start Point in Cornwall and the Metropolis, by which intelligence could be transmitted throughout the whole distance in eighteen minutes.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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2 joined circ. steel
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After G. Townsend; no. 122 ; engravings each 48mm diameter
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1853