Kentish Views - Bay Hill Telecommunications Traditional Geocache

In this day and age where it is so simple to communicate with people around the world it is easy to forget that 125 years ago it was a modern breakthrough to connect two countries divided by 26 miles of water.

On April the 1st 1891, the first cross-channel telephone cable between England and France opened to the public.

It was the first subsea cable linking two countries.

The crew of GPO cable ship HMTS Monarch braved snowstorms and high seas to lay the cable from St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, to Sangatte, Calais. There was so much demand for people to communicate between London and Paris that the first circuit was unable to cope, so the following February a second circuit was opened.

The submarine cables to France were re-laid in 1930, coming ashore at St Margaret’s bay beach. In 1932, a large repeater station was completed on Bay Hill, St Margaret’s Bay.

To celebrate this feat I have placed a geocache near the site where the cross -channel cables came ashore.

The far reaching views across the channel from here are worth stopping to take in, rather than just a quick cache & dash.

You are looking for a medium sized cache which is suitable for TBs.