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Description: Semaphore House, Pewley Hill. This private house with its distinctive domed tower was once part of a vital military communications route. Semaphore messages, and the 1 o'clock time signal, were passed between London and Portsmouth along a chain of 13 stations, about 5 miles apart.Pewley received its signals from the tower on Chatley Heath which still stands today. The side road carries the nameplate, "Semaphore Road".
Title: Semaphore House, Pewley Hill. - geograph.org.uk - 140716
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