Telegraph Hill, London

Telegraph Hill is a place south of New Cross within the London Borough of Lewisham in southeast London. The namesake is a hill of around 150 ft tall. Originally known as Plowed Garlic Hill, it got its present name when a semophore telegraph station was built at its summit around 1795.

The famous poet Robert Browning (1812-1889) lived in a cottage at the foot of Telegraph Hill. The hill is now residential in character. Most of the houses here dates to the late 19th century, when the property owners, the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, had the land developed with terraced housing. The hill is home to the highly popular Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, the most over-subscribed state school in the country. The college is housed in the school that the Haberdasher's built and named after one of its members, Robert Aske.

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