Telegraph Hill, Hertfordshire

Telegraph Hill is a nature reserve near Lilley in north Hertfordshire. Between 1796 and 1814 it was a telegraph station, one of the links in the chain between Great Yarmouth and London during the Napoleanic wars. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and close to Deacon Hill SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest).^[1] According to the Chilterns AONB the hill is owned by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust,^[2] and a notice on the site says that it is managed by the trust, but it is not listed on the Trust's web site as one of its reserves.

The site is a mixture of chalk grassland and scrub, with ancient beech trees. Wild flowers include rock rose, salad burnet and common spotted orchid.^[3]

Day 3 of the Icknield Way Path between Streatley and Ickleford goes through the site.

References

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↑ Hamilton, Elizabeth. A journey into the deep past. Hertfordshire Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (Pdf of article published in January 2014 issue of Hertfordshire Life)
↑ "Telegraph Hill". Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
↑ Castle, Alan (2001). Walking in Bedfordshire. Cicerone Press Limited. p. 60. ISBN 9781852843120.

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadow Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill

Coordinates: 51°56′45″N 0°22′21″W / 51.9458°N 0.3726°W / 51.9458; -0.3726

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