Post ID: 84

Reign: ER (Edward VII: 1901 - 1910) Later style
Numerals: None remaining
Last confirmed: January 1972
Removed by: January 1972
Removed from its original location
Location: Creech Castle, West Monkton, Taunton
Depth: Buried to just below distance plate.
Condition: Intact
Lat / Lng: click for map in new window 51.024010654,-3.07150762  Grid Ref: ST 2494 2550
Notes: "A post office cable marker dated 1901 was recovered from the A38 [in 1972]. It marked the London-Penzance cable, the first long distance cable in the SW and one of the first in the country. It was donated to the Telecom Museum, North Street, Taunton which upon closure sent its artefacts elsewhere, probably to Goonhilly Down or Porthcurno Museum in Cornwall."
Web Reference: www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/27012#
Identified by: South West Heritage Trust
Added to database: 23/08/2020 20:06
Last updated: 24/11/2021 10:05
Telegraph cable marker post at Creech Castle, West Monkton, Taunton by South West Heritage Trust

© South West Heritage Trust

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