Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill is a name shared by many hills, suburbs, villages and other places around the world. Many are so called because they were historically the site of a warning beacon. Others are named after other places of the same name.

Places

In Australia

Beacon Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

In Canada

Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, a neighbourhood
Beacon Hill Park, a park in Victoria, British Columbia
Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan
Beacon Hill, Montreal, a neighbourhood in Beaconsfield, Quebec

In Hong Kong

Beacon Hill, Hong Kong, a hill in the Kowloon Tong area of Hong Kong
Beacon Hill School, Hong Kong, a primary school on Beacon Hill, Hong Kong

In Ireland

Beacon Hill, the site of the former coastguard station in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland

In the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has many Beacon Hills. Most of them take their name from their use as sites for warning beacons as part of Britain's early warning system in Elizabethan times, when they were lit to warn of the coming of the Spanish Armada.

Here are a few of them:

Beacon Hill, Buckinghamshire, a village in Buckinghamshire
Beacon Hill, Frodsham, Cheshire (see Frodsham)
Beacon Hill or Fell, or Penrith Beacon, Penrith, Cumbria
Beacon Hill, Paignton, the highest point in the unitary authority of Torbay, Devon
Beacon Hill transmitting station, radio and television transmitters located at Beacon Hill, Marldon, Devon
Beacon Hill, Dorset, in the hinterland of Poole
Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire, a hill fort
Beacon Hill, Warnford, Hampshire
Beacon Hill, Lancashire, the location of Jubilee Tower overlooking Darwen
Beacon Hill, Leicestershire, a country park in Leicestershire
Beacon Hill, Lincolnshire in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Beacon Hill, Monmouthshire, near Monmouth near the Welsh-English border
Beacon Hill, Norfolk, the highest point in Norfolk
Beacon Hill, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Beacon Hill, Colkirk, Norfolk, a high point in mid Norfolk
Beacon Hill, Wollaston, Northamptonshire
Beacon Hill, Morpeth, Northumberland
Beacon Hill, Powys, near Knighton near the Welsh-English border
Beacon Hill, Rottingdean, Sussex
Beacon Hill, Sedgley, known as the Sedgley Beacon, the second-highest point in the West Midlands
Beacon Hill, Surrey, a settlement near Hindhead, Surrey
Beacon Hill, one of the Lickey Hills in Worcestershire
Beacon Hill School (England), one of three schools in the UK with the name Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill, Walsall, known as Barr Beacon

In the United States

Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston
- Metonymically, the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature) which meets there.
Beacon Hill (California), in Norco, California.
Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington, a hill and neighborhood in Seattle, Washington
- Beacon Hill (Link station), a Link Light Rail station located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Beacon Hill, New Jersey, an unincorporated area within Marlboro Township, New Jersey
Beacon Hill (Branford, Connecticut), the southernmost summit of the Metacomet Ridge
Beacon Hill, Kansas City, Missouri, a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri
Beacon Hill of New Haven, Connecticut, which contains Fort Wooster Park
Beacon Hill, Spokane, Washington, a hill located to the northeast of Spokane, Washington
Beacon Hill, Erie, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in the Erie area
Beacon Hill, Leesburg, Virginia, a development just west of Leesburg
Beacon Hill, Chicago Heights, Illinois, a neighborhood in Illinois
Beacon Hill, San Antonio, Texas, a neighborhood two miles north-northwest of downtown San Antonio, Texas
Beacon Hill, a hill and neighborhood located in southern Fairfax County, Virginia near the former Beacon Field Airport

Other

Beacon Hill (TV series), a short-lived 1975 American drama set in the Boston neighborhood
Beacon Hill (web series), a 2014 American drama web series
Beacon Hill (train), defunct daily rail service from Boston to New Haven, USA
Beacon Hill is a stage of Need for Speed: Underground 2.