Beacon Hill

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Beacon Hill is a name shared by many hills, suburbs, villages and other places around the world. Many are so called because they were historically the site of a warning beacon. Others are named after other places of the same name.

Contents 1 Places 1.1 In the United Kingdom 1.2 In the United States 1.3 In Canada 1.4 In Australia 1.5 In Hong Kong 2 Other

[edit] Places

[edit] In the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has many Beacon Hills. Most of them take their name from their use as sites for warning beacons as part of Britain's early warning system in Elizabethan times, when they were lit to warn of the coming of the Spanish Armada.

Here are a few of them:

• Beacon Hill, Buckinghamshire, a village in Buckinghamshire
• Beacon Hill, Frodsham, Cheshire
• Beacon Hill, Paignton, the highest point in the unitary authority of Torbay, Devon
  • Beacon Hill transmitting station
• Beacon Hill, Dorset, in the hinterland of Poole, Dorset
• Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire, one of the best known hill forts in the United Kingdom
• Beacon Hill, Warnford, Hampshire, a 201m (659 foot) hill in Hampshire.
• Beacon Hill, Leicestershire, a popular country park in Leicestershire
• Beacon Hill, Lincolnshire in the Lincolnshire Wolds
• Beacon Hill, Monmouthshire, a 306m (1,003 foot) hill near Monmouth on the Welsh-English border
• Beacon Hill, Norfolk, the highest point (105m)(344 feet) in the county of Norfolk
• Beacon Hill, Colkirk, Norfolk, a high point (89m (291 feet) in mid Norfolk
• Beacon Hill, Wollaston, Northamptonshire
• Beacon Hill, Morpeth, Northumberland
• Beacon Hill, Powys, a 547m hill near Knighton near the Welsh-English border
• Beacon Hill, Surrey, a settlement near Hindhead, Surrey
• Beacon Hill, one of the Lickey Hills in Worcestershire
• Beacon Hill School (England), one of three schools in the UK with the name Beacon Hill

[edit] In the United States

• Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston
  • Euphemistically, the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature) which meets there.
• Beacon Hill (Branford, Connecticut), the southernmost summit of the Metacomet Ridge
• Beacon Hill of New Haven, Connecticut, which contains Fort Wooster Park
• Beacon Hill, Kansas City, Missouri, a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri
• Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington, a hill and neighborhood in Seattle, Washington
• Beacon Hill, Spokane, Washington, a hill located to the northeast of Spokane, Washington
• Beacon Hill, Erie, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in the Erie area
• Beacon Hill, Leesburg, Virginia, a development just west of Leesburg
• Beacon Hill, Chicago Heights, Illinois, a neighborhood in Illinois
• Beacon Hill, San Antonio, Texas, a neighborhood two miles north-northwest of downtown San Antonio, Texas
• Beacon Hill, a hill and neighborhood located in southern Fairfax County, Virginia near the former Beacon Field Airport

[edit] In Canada

• Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, a neighbourhood
• Beacon Hill Park, a park in Victoria, British Columbia
• Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan
• Beacon Hill, Montreal, a neighbourhood in Beaconsfield, Quebec

[edit] In Australia

• Beacon Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

[edit] In Hong Kong

• Beacon Hill, Hong Kong, a hill in the Kowloon Tong area of Hong Kong
• Beacon Hill School, Hong Kong, a primary school on Beacon Hill, Hong Kong

[edit] Other

• Beacon Hill (television series), a short-lived drama set in the Boston neighborhood
• Beacon Hill (Amtrak), defunct daily rail service from Boston to New Haven, USA

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