Telegraph, Isles of Scilly

Telegraph
Old and modern communication towers & masts in the Telegraph area
Telegraph is located in Isles of Scilly
Telegraph
Telegraph
Location within Isles of Scilly
Civil parish
  • St Mary's
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townISLES OF SCILLY
Postcode districtTR21
Dialling code01720
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireIsles of Scilly
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
49°55′44″N 6°18′11″W / 49.929°N 6.303°W / 49.929; -6.303

Telegraph (Cornish: Brebellskrif)[1] is a settlement on St Mary's, the largest of the Isles of Scilly, England.

Telegraph is located in the north west of the island and is the highest point on St Mary's and in the Isles of Scilly, at 51 metres (167 ft) above sea level.[2] The settlement takes its name from Telegraph Tower, situated at the summit of the hill.

History of telegraph communication to Scilly

In the late 1860s, Mr. Buxton of Scilly attempted to persuade the Post Office to install a telegraph cable to the Isles of Scilly. However, the Post Office declined and it was decided that a private company should undertake the project. Ashurst, Morris and Company of Old Jewry, London were contracted by the Scilly Islands Telegraph Company. They entered into a contract with Mr. Fenwick of Gateshead (who had been responsible for the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais which was completed on 25 September 1851). The core of the Scilly cable consisted of three copper wires, insulated by india-rubber, and was manufactured by the Silvertown Company. The outer covering was composed of six strands of Manilla hemp, through each of which ran a galvanised iron wire. The cable weight was 17 long hundredweight (860 kg) per mile, with a breaking strain of 3.5 long tons (3,600 kg). 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of each end of the wire was bound with galvanized iron wire, to protect against chafing on rocks, bringing the weight to 4 long tons (4,100 kg) per mile.

On 22 September 1869 the steamer Resolute of Newcastle, arrived at Penzance with the telegraph cable to connect Land’s End to the Isles of Scilly. The cable was 30.5 miles (49.1 km) long without a single splice, and was the first piece of this length that was made.[3] On Saturday 25 September 1869 the steamer Fusilier, under Captain Jacques arrived opposite Mill Bay, a small cover about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Land’s End. Rockets were used to convey a rope ashore, and the cable on the ship attached to this rope, and hauled ashore to make the land connection at Zawn Reeth.[4] Cable laying was completed by Sunday 26 September 1869 when the cable reached Deep Point, beneath the high lands of Normandy on St Mary’s.[5]

The cable broke in mid 1870 and had to be repaired. The cost of sending a 20 word message from Penzance to the Isles of Scilly was 2s 6d (equivalent to £15.11 in 2023).[6] A second cable, manufactured by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company was laid in 1870 allowing messages to be sent or received from any Postal Telegraph Office in the United Kingdom. The cost of sending a 20 word message using this system was an additional 1s (equivalent to £6.04 in 2023)[6] per message on top of the Scilly Islands Telegraph Company charge of 2s 6d. On 28 June 1870 a branch was opened to Tresco.[7]

The cable was used initially for shipowners and merchants to communicate with their vessels moored in the Islands, and was also used to send weather observations to the mainland.

The cable service failed in 1876 and the Scilly Islands Telegraph Company did not have the resources to repair it. Eventually the Post Office agreed to purchase and repair it[8] and they took over the assets of the Scilly company on 24 April 1879. The cost of messages was reduced to 1s for the first 20 words, and then 3d for every additional 5 words.

Current use

The only golf club on the Isles of Scilly is situated between Telegraph and the coast to the west. The course consists of nine holes, each with two tees. The club was founded in 1904 and is open to visitors.[9]

HM Coastguard had a station at Telegraph until 2017.[10]

McFarland's Down is a linear settlement that grew in the latter half of the 20th century and is to the immediate north of Telegraph.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Akademi Kernewek - Henwyn Tyller".
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey mapping (1:50,000)
  3. ^ "The Scilly Telegraph Cable". Western Morning News. England. 23 September 1869. Retrieved 17 May 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "The Telegraph Cable to Scilly". Western Morning News. England. 27 September 1869. Retrieved 17 May 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "The Scilly Isles Telegraph Cable". Western Morning News. England. 28 September 1869. Retrieved 17 May 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  7. ^ "The Scilly Cable". West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. England. 30 June 1870. Retrieved 17 May 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "The Scilly Telegraph Cable". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. England. 3 November 1877. Retrieved 17 May 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ Isles of Scilly Golf Club Archived 2015-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ scillynowandthen (6 July 2017). "New station for Isles of Scilly Coastguards". thisisscillynews. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Mcfarland's Down, Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom". gb.geoview.info. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

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