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The Dover Road is a book by Charles G. Harper with the subtitle Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. The text describes a singular structure in Tooley Street, the so-called Telegraph Tower, which was burned down in the great fire of August, 1843. The text says that a system was introduced in 1795 at the suggestion of the Rev. Lord George Murray, who proposed to the Admiralty to erect signal-posts or towers on the heights between London and the coast.
The text retells a story in which Our Lady of Chatham, offended by a burial within the church-yard, arose by night and went in person to the house of the parish clerk. The text invites the reader to walk to the outmost verge of the Admiralty Pier and look back upon the town, which lies in the hollow. The text points out the Castle Hill and the Western Heights, twin eminences guarding the land and the open roadstead of the Downs.
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- Charles G. Harper
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