Telephone tapping points have a socket for connecting field telephones to the military telephone network. They are used for providing safety communications during training. The socket is contained within a concrete box with a hinged steel door. Since the 1990s these have been replaced, when necessary, by a short metal post on which the socket is mounted. Some cable junctions are marked on the ground by a concrete slab, inscribed with the number of the signal squadron responsible for maintaining Dartmoor’s telephone network until the 1950s.
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Irish Bridge
Ford and adjacent ‘Irish’ bridge. Constructed in 1999 by Specialist Team Royal Engineers and Squadron (V) Royal Engineers with assistance from a Chagford stone wall expert (Wilf Hutchings).
Semaphore Station
Concrete base only.
Observation Post/ OP 01, Okehampton Firing Range
Observation Post/ OP 01.
Demolished. John Deakins writes: “Situated 130 metres North East of New Bridge above the slopes of the Blackaven Brook and near to a military track running to the North of East Mill Tor… It was situated on a stony rectangular platform of 11 x 7 metres and by the 1970s had been abandoned and this was all that remained along with corrugated iron from the roof.”
Reference:
- Deakins, J. (2021): Dartmoor Observation Posts