Submarine Cable Landing Point in Cornwall, UK

Submarine Cable Landing Point in Cornwall, UK

12/27/2019 11:36:27 AM

Here is a photo I took of one of the cables on a Cornish beach after a storm nine years ago.

Exposed cable

There is also this excellent You Tube video you can watch and this media report

I also wrote this blog post giving a load of relevant links.

9/12/2019 7:41:52 PM

I’ve visited all the Cable Landing Stations in Cornwall, they are all linked up by ducts under 3 roads that run from West Penwith all the way to Bude passing Widemouth Bay. On the beach at Widemouth there are two Post Office Manholes that have HD marked on them near the Lifeguard Hut, these are where the sea cables are spliced onto the land cables which then run up to the nearby Poultry Farm where a large Cable and Wireless Landing Station is situated. Cornwall also has a few discreet Relay stations half way between Bude and West Penwith to handle the Atlantic cables.

12/17/2017 9:25:15 AM

You won’t likely see much on the beach though sometimes storms expose parts of cables, which may or may not be in use.

Much of the heavy communications infrastructure in Cornwall is hidden underground and in nondescript industrial buildings, bungalow-like buildings, down small roads that claim to lead to farms and such like. Partly security through obscurity.

Also the new cable landing stations may be a few km inland with splices hidden underground. There are locked manhole covers on the surface but little else that is visible.

Here is a (apparently) disused cable landing station with underground bunker for TAT3/TAT8 just up from Widemouth beach (photo from Google Earth street view):

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Right on Widemouth Beach, you may be able to see evidence (such as manhole covers right on the beach) of the Europe-India gateway cable & GLO1 landing near the lifeguard station.

The actual landing building for those cables is a couple km away, and you won’t be able to get close enough to see very much:

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12/17/2017 6:25:51 AM

I have a beach house in New Jersey near the landing points for several cables. The only thing to see is a rusty sign saying DO NOT ANCHOR HERE. This web site says the sign at Widemouth Bay says TELEPHONE CABLE:
http://www.picturetheuk.com/uk-tourism/things-to-do/widemouth-bay-telephone-cable-cornwall-4663.html
You might enjoy the museum at Porthcurno, all about the early telegraph cables that landed there: http://www.porthcurno.org.uk/index.php

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