Many hills in England were named Beacon Hill after such beacons.

He had a mansion on Beacon Hill in Boston.

In the pilot, Banacek's car pulls into his Beacon Hill home, the historic Second Harrison Gray Otis House located at 85 Mount Vernon Street.

The town became a naval base in 1657 and was heavily fortified, with Harwich Redoubt, Beacon Hill Battery, and Bath Side Battery.

The town, he recounts, was also known for an unusual spring rising on Beacon Hill ( a promontory to the north-east of the town ), which " petrified " clay, allowing it to be used to pave Harwich's streets and build its walls.

The five primary schools in the immediate vicinity of Kesgrave are Beacon Hill Primary School, Birchwood Primary School, Cedarwood Primary School the building of which was awarded a Civic Trust Award in 2003, Gorseland Primary School and Heath Primary School.

Sketch of Beacon Hill cemetery

Beacon Hill cemetery was excavated by Charles Thomas in 1969.

Four Celtic inscribed stones have been found in Beacon Hill cemetery:

The Ridgeway National Trail follows the ancient Ridgeway from Overton Hill, near Avebury, to Streatley, then follows footpaths and parts of the ancient Icknield Way through the Chiltern Hills to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.

One of fifteen long-distance National Trails in England and Wales, the Ridgeway travels for northeast from Overton Hill within the Avebury World Heritage Site to Ivinghoe Beacon near Tring, where it meets the Icknield Way Path.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

The UUA is headquartered at 25 Beacon Street on historic Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, the historical center of Unitarian Christianity in America.

In the countryside surrounding the town, there is evidence of iron age cave dwellings in Ham Woods, to the north-west, and a number of burial mounds have been identified at Beacon Hill, a short distance north of the town.

Approximately to the northeast of the town centre is Beacon Hill Wood ( owned by the Woodland Trust ), which is at the crossing of the Fosse Way and another Roman road which runs along the top of the Mendip Hills, and which contains a number of tumuli.

Likewise, the Victoria terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway, located at the foot of Douglas Street and Dallas Road at Beacon Hill Park, is marked by a " mile zero " monument.

* Victoria, British Columbia ( Beacon Hill Park ) — 127. 5 ft ( 38. 862 m ), Kwakwaka ' wakw, carved by Mungo Martin with Henry Hunt and David Martin

* Great Blue Hill District ( includes the communities of Allston, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Brookline, Dedham, Dorchester, Dover, Hyde Park, Islington, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Milton, Needham, Quincy, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, Westwood )

The southern terminus of the Metacomet Ridge, Beacon Hill, is located in Branford.

A unique example was the village approving a subdivision called Beacon Hill, consisting of houses on smaller lots but with considerable open space in and around the development.

* Beacon Hill is an unincorporated community in the township.

It was a center of the Trimountain Mining Company, largely backed by Boston financiers, and the settlement was named after Beacon Hill neighborhood in that city.

Mount Union is the site of the PA Lions Beacon Lodge Camp, a summer camp for people with visual impairments and special needs, founded by Carl Shoemaker in 1948.

Here the path heads north-east along a section of Stane Street through Eartham Wood, before passing through the neolithic camp below Glatting Beacon and heading east down to the River Arun at Houghton.

Two weeks before the scheduled opening, an editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal lambasted the ribbon-cutting, calling the ceremony a mere " photo op ", and questioning why a finished project should sit unused for 31 days.

North of Beacon Hill there is a Bronze Age Bowl Barrow ( scheduled ancient monument number 290 ) sited in a fir plantation and covered with trees.

150 yards south of Beacon Hill Camp is a Bronze Age round Barrow ( scheduled ancient monument number 318 )

Carnarvon's tomb, appropriately for an archaeologist, is located within an ancient hill fort overlooking his family seat at Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire.

Dunhuang (, also as in ancient times meaning ' Blazing Beacon ') is a city ( pop.

Ivinghoe Beacon, near the village, is an ancient beacon, or signal point, which was used in times of crisis to send messages across the country and is now popular with walkers who just want to get exercise and see the view.

Here once stood an ancient boundary stone, near the Hops and Vine pub — formerly the Belisha Beacon — and since replaced by a milestone that, traditionally, marks the division of Kent into its east and west zones.

The oldest visible part of wollaston is known as Beacon Hill, an ancient castle earthwork or burial mound which once belonged to Bury Manor.

There are ancient earthworks and a mound called Threekingham Beacon to the west of the village.

* The Augustus Saint-Gaudens monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the Afro-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry stands at Beacon and Park Streets, the northeast corner of the Common, opposite the State House.

Among his other early works are a memorial column on Beacon Hill ( 1789 ), the first monument to the American Revolution ; the Federal Street theater ( 1793 ); the " Tontine Crescent " ( built 1793 – 1794, now demolished ), fashioned in part after John Wood's Royal Crescent ; the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut ( 1796 ); and the Massachusetts State House ( 1798 ).

In front of the monument is a rectangular concrete pillar that is the trig point and it is topped with a metal plaque donated in 1988 that points to true north and to the following distant features: The Cotswolds ( 53 miles ), Brill Hill ( 13 miles ), Waddesdon Manor ( 10 miles ), Calvert Chimneys ( 15 miles ), Aylesbury Church ( 5 miles ), Mursley Water Tower ( 15 miles ), Wingrave Church ( 8 miles ), Leighton Buzzard ( 12 miles ), Mentmore ( 9 miles ), Edlesborough Church ( 11 miles ) and Ivinghoe Beacon ( 9 miles ).

Image: Sackville park monument. jpg | Beacon of Hope

Just a kilometre north of the monument, on top of Beacon Hill, is the toposcope made in the early twentieth century by the Cadbury family, standing next to the Ordnance Survey triangulation point.

The first movement of Three Places in New England, St .- Gaudens, is a tribute to the monument on the corner of Beacon and Park Streets in Boston, MA.

Bus There are a number of bus services provided by Stagecoach South West, First Devon and Cornwall, and Beacon Bus:

Among the high number of independent schools is Sevenoaks School, a co-educational boarding and day school ; and several Preparatory schools, including Solefield School, Walthamstow Hall, New Beacon Preparatory School and Sevenoaks Preparatory School.

The walk provides links to a number of other long distance walks: the Beacon Way, Staffordshire Way, Arden Way, Cotswold Way, Oxfordshire Way, and Thames Path.

Software bundles usually included ClarisWorks, Quicken, a calendar / contact manager such as Touchbase and Datebook Pro, America Online, Apple's At Ease child-safe interface, educational software such as American Heritage Dictionary, The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Microsoft Bookshelf ( on models equipped with a CD-Rom ), Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, or Mario Teaches Typing, and games such as Spectre Challenger, Super Munchers, and Monopoly, all pre-installed over a slightly customized version of the Macintosh System software, denoted by a P in the version number ( e. g., System 7. 1P5 ).

It is the home of Bunnings Warehouse and Harvey Norman stores, as well as a number of smaller stores including Supercheap Auto, Beacon Lighting, Snooze, Ray's Outdoors and most recently JB-Hi-Fi.

* December 24 – Richard Trevithick demonstrates the first full-sized road locomotive to the public, successfully carrying a number of men up Beacon Hill.

Behind the beach just north of the village is Rhossili Down with the highest point on the Gower Peninsula, ( the Beacon ), and a number of prehistoric remains.

In towns such as Beacon Falls, Bethany, Orange, and Simsbury, the losing first selectman candidate can earn a seat on the board of selectmen, depending on the number of votes he or she garners.

Until 1967, when it was named the " C " Branch, the Beacon Street route had the map number.