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| Name: | Telegraph Hill |
| Hill number: | 18476 |
| Height: | 163m / 535ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2909 Butser Hill |
| RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| County/UA: | West Sussex |
| Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SU 78325 14958 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: crop field |
| Drop: | 38m |
| Col: | 125m SU787154  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 197 (1:25k) OL8 120 |
| Observations: | level summit area |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 34 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Hike from West Mardon - Apple Down - Telegraph Hill-Compton Down and Chalton Down. Nice and sunny as the rain swept east. | PhilipChaston | 31/10/2021 |
| Parked in layby to NE of Telegraph Hill. Circuit of Telegraph Hill and Apple Down. | PGCE | 11/01/2021 |
| Harting Down car park - Harting Downs - Beacon Hill - Apple Down - Telegraph Hill - Compton Down - Chalton Down - Chalton. | Mark Jackson | 20/06/2020 |
| Started at Bevis's Thumb (parking in layby to N) and walked over Compton Down first before field paths to Compton. Then path E direct onto ridge and along, deviating easily from ROW to visit HP. A pleasant 5 mile walk, mostly arable, nice vews and surprisingly good underfoot near end of wettest Feb on record. | pwheeler | 26/02/2020 |
| Pleasant circular walk in wintry sun from Apple Down. HP indistinct in stubble field near house. Good views. Parking to N in layby. | Denise | 14/12/2019 |
| Easy access to field of stubble just N of private house. Extensive farland / Downland views. Levelish summit. | RichardM | 14/12/2019 |
| Final hill of 3 on afternoon walk from Compton. Up and round Compton down then back to the village before Apple Down including a diversion to the church in Up Marden then Telegraph hill and a return to Compton. Sunny afternoon, using the many bridal and footpaths. | Buck | 17/08/2019 |
| From Compton up steep path. Stubble field near house. Then followed FPs round to Apple Down. With A. | PeterD | 10/11/2017 |
| up steep FP from Compton | trimarc2 | 02/11/2017 |
| A 20 mile circular walk linking 12 Tumps (all repeats) with Lesley and Betty the dog . 3000ft of ascent.. grey cold morning here with wet feet from damp grass beffore later sunshine. | Chris Pearson | 17/09/2017 |
| Second hill of the day | ejjohnstone | 04/06/2017 |
| First of 3 on a figure-of-eight walk based in delightful village of Compton. Sunny afternoon, easy navigation, steep short climb from path by primary school. Summit looks like it's in field to west of footpath. | JOHNS | 29/04/2017 |
| From minor road to NW. RoW then across fallow field to 50m or so N of Telegraph House. Large flatish field. | jonglew | 02/02/2016 |
| From ne. Level stubble field north of house (house is former telegraph station?) | RHW | 24/01/2016 |
| From London to Portsmouth is about 60 miles. The year is 1796. What was the shortest time in which you could send a message and get a reply between the two cities? The answer is fifteen minutes using telegraph apparatus on hill tops such as here (about 10 miles apart)A shutter telegraph station had six pivoted boards, which could be swivelled by the ropes leading down to the cabin, so they were either visible or edge-on. Six shutters gives a 6-bit binary code, allowing 63 non-zero states to be transmitted. These were allocated as the 26 letters of the alphabet, ten numerals, and some useful preset sentences, e.g 'Defeat the French Navy immediately'! (The tempting reply to such a demanding command is not reported) | Chris Pearson | 21/05/2015 |
| Part of the six hills walk with three in a line | philhythe | 01/02/2015 |
| West Marden to Petersfield. | Smudge | 18/07/2014 |
| Martin R | 21/06/2023 | |
| SteveG | 08/12/2022 | |
| Kendall | 17/09/2022 | |
| DC11main | 05/09/2022 | |
| KC | 22/05/2021 | |
| mazz | 07/03/2021 | |
| Adrian2 | 07/03/2021 | |
| daveyf2001 | 05/02/2021 | |
| Matt | 11/11/2020 | |
| GordonAdshead | 24/09/2020 | |
| andrew brown | 02/03/2019 | |
| arjh | 14/04/2018 | |
| Sainesy | 03/04/2016 | |
| stevent0809 | 17/10/2015 | |
| kaizerlard | 23/10/2010 | |
| Adrian | 17/04/2010 | |
| Sprog | 14/07/1995 |