From the Wikipedia page on Malden Rushett [1] South of Malden Rushett is Rushett Common consisting of two strips of woodland alongside the A243 to the edge of the boundary between Greater London and Surrey.[3] These are bounded by the Surrey woodlands of Princes Covert to the west and Epsom Common to the east. Within Rushett Common is Telegraph Hill - earlier known as Cabbage Hill - which was the site of a station on the Admiralty Shutter telegraph line. This used the shutter system to communicate between London and Portsmouth from 1796 until 1816. The buildings were small two-roomed wooden huts with a frame which held the six wooden shutters.[4] The station was replaced by a semaphore station built at Claygate.