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Farlington Redoubt
Hob Uid: 238457
Location : Hampshire Havant Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : SU6860006400
Summary : Site of Camp Down Admiralty Semaphore Station of 1821-61. Small redoubt built on the site circa 1870 as part of the Portsmouth Defence Line. Now quarried away.
More information : (SU 686064) Farlington Redoubt [NAT]. (1) Farlington Redoubt (SU 686064) This was a small earthwork located to the east of Fort Purbrook and connected to it by a sunken way. It is doubtful whether it was ever armed, or even intended for permanent mounting of guns, being most probably no more than a prepared position for moveable armament so as to command a section of ground concealed from Fort Purbrook. It was never mentioned in subsequent records after being built in about 1868-70, and is now quite derelict and overgrown. (2) Farlington is in use as a chalk quarry and almost completely demolished. (3) Demolished. The site is used by Southern Gas as a store. (4) (Part of the Portsdown Hill defensive line. See SU 50 SE 26 for Historical background.) The Redoubt was built on the site of the Camp Down Admiralty Semaphore Telegraph. This had been built 1821-22 when the semaphore replaced the shutter-telegraph system, and linked the Compton telegraph station to that at Portsmouth either directly, or if industrial smoke obscured the Portsmouth-Camp Down sighting line, indirectly via a semaphore station at Lumps Fort (SZ 69 NE 8). (5)

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Source details : OS 6" 1963
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Source details : Coast Defences of Eng & Wales 1856-1956 1974 147 (I V Hogg)
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Source details : F2 JGB 10-FEB-83
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Source details : The Old Telegraph 1976 57-58 (G Wilson)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Extant 1821-61
Monument End Date : 1861
Monument Start Date : 1821
Monument Type : Semaphore Station, Fieldwork
Evidence : Demolished Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Convereted 1870
Monument End Date : 1870
Monument Start Date : 1870
Monument Type : Redoubt
Evidence : Demolished Building

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 60 NE 27
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1969-01-17
End Date : 1969-01-17

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1983-02-10
End Date : 1983-02-10

Historic England Research Records

Farlington Redoubt