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== 2024 Planning Applications ==
===№ 14 ===
{{plan-app|<!-- 1. APPLICATION NUMBER -->2024/1156|<!-- 2. ADDRESS -->14 [[Telegraph Lane]]|<!-- 3. PROPOSAL -->Hip-to-gable roof extension incorporating rear dormer window and front rooflights, single-storey side/rear extensions, alterations to existing rear outbuilding and alterations to fenestration following demolition of the attached garage.}}
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===№ 73 ===
{{plan-app-comm|<!-- 1. APPLICATION NUMBER -->2024/2674
|<!-- 2. ADDRESS -->73 [[Telegraph Lane]]
|<!-- 3. PROPOSAL --> Hip to gable roof extension and rear dormer window incorporating rear juliet balcony and front roof light.
|<!-- 4. COMMENTS -->Lawful Development Cert – Proposed. [No Comment]}}

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== Historical Notes ==
For many years there was a track which led from [[Red Lane]], passed Slough Farm and skirted round the western slopes of [[Telegraph Hill]]. From there it went in a northerly direction, across a country lane (later to become [[Manor Road South]]), to link up with Portsmouth Road near the Scilly Isles. It is unlikely that this track could have been used by vehciles along its entire length, because when the railway was built in the 1880s only a footbridge was provided to cross the line. 

When Semaphore House was built, the southern section of this track, with a branch constructed to the top of the hill, was called Telegraph Road, subsequently [[Telegraph Lane]], while the northerly section fell gradually into disuse. 

Near the junction with [[Red Lane]] used to be Upper Couchmore Farm, subsequently known as Green Farm, before its demise when [[Langbourne Way]] and [[Crediton Way]] were built. Further up on the west side before one reaches Slough Farm was originally a corn chandler's shop and known previously as Ivy Cottage, now № 41 and a private residence, and nearby on the site occupied by [[Applegarth]] were two other shops, one of which was a butcher's shop. The last dwellings on the east side of Telegraph Lane &mdash; Orchard Cottages &mdash; were built in 1883. 

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{{Farms of Claygate}}
*  '''Slough Farm, Telegraph Lane.''' The farmhouse bears a Sun Insurance Fire Mark No. 599538 issued on 24th April 1792 to the owner, Elizabeth Barwick of Hertfordshire. Arguably, Merrilyn and Slough Farmhouse are Claygate's two oldest properties.

=== Green Farm and Upper Couchmore Farm ===
In the early 20th century, '''Green Farm''' was a small arable farm of nearly 14 acres lying between [[Telegraph Lane]] and [[Old Claygate Lane|Claygate Lane]] with the farmhouse sited on the south-eastern corner where Telegraph Lane and [[Red Lane]] meet. It adjoined the much larger Upper Couchmore Farm, both of which comprised part of the Couchmore Estate, totalling about 335 acres and owned for many years by the Banks family. Part of Upper Couchmore Farm also stretched into property owned by the Speer family. 

In 1838, Francis Elworthy was the tenant farmer of Green Farm which was valued for rating purposes at £94.10s.0d., while William Whiston was the tenant of Upper Couchmore Farm valued at £111. Isaac Dagwell is recorded as the tenant of Green Farm in 1843. 

The Ordnance Survey map of 1866 marks Upper Couchmore Farm at the corner of [[Telegraph Lane]] and [[Red Lane]], but there is no reference to Green Farm, although other documents still show Francis Elworthy as the tenant of that farm. The reverse situation applies in Ordnance Survey maps published after the First World War. Deeds state that Richard Brice obtained on 29th September 1890 an optional lease on Green Farm of 7, 14 or 21 years' duration for a yearly rent of £100 with apportioned tithes, paid by the landlord, of £10.5s.7d. &mdash;Brice was still there until at least 1926. 

{{Green Farm}}

{{Slough Farm}}

=== See also ===
* [[Telegraph Hill]]

=== Sources ===
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* {{Peebles}}
[[Category:Farms of Claygate]]
* ''Claygate Life &mdash; 2004 issue 4''

== Further Information ==
* [[Telegraph Lane in previous years]]