Millennium Beacon on Woodcock Hill
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Millennium Beacon on Woodcock Hill
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 17 Jul 2013
At around 140 metres aod this is the highest point for some distance around here. It was chosen as a site for a semaphore telegraph station in the Napoleonic wars and for this beacon to mark the millennium.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.645257
Longitude
-0.26867