Gun Hill Signal Station

In the Militia Act of that year, when it was known as Briggs Hill, it was named as one of the four points where guns were to be placed to give alarm in the event of an invasion, so it is likely that the name Gun Hill goes back nearly 300 years.

Philip border, and north to the Cotton Tower, Grenade Hall, and Dover Fort (and vice versa).

But Gun Hill was also the typical 'Hill Station' of the tropics, used as a convalescent station for the troops, and for evacuation of the Garrison in times of epidemics of yellow fever and once (in 1854) of cholera.

After the decline of the signal stations, the Gun Hill buildings fell into complete disrepair.

They include the station with its prominent tower, a kitchen, magazine, sentry box, and ruined barracks.