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Pontop Pike transmitting station
Pontop Pike transmitting station in England North East, United Kingdom.
Andrew Curtis — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Pontop Pike transmitting station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Pontop Pike transmitting station is a facility for telecommunications and broadcasting situated on a 312-metre (1,024-ft) high hill of the same name between Stanley and Consett, County Durham, near the village of Dipton, England. The mast is 149 metres (489 ft) high, giving an average antenna height of 461 metres (1,512 ft) above sea level. It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The mast was built in 1953, by BICC with Rowridge (also ) and North Hessary Tor in Devon (). Its construction was brought forward by the BBC so that people in North East England could watch the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II live on the 405-line television system VHF then in use in the UK. Test transmissions from a low-power temporary aerial began on Monday, 20 April 1953, and the first programmes were transmitted on Friday, 1 May 1953, in plenty of time for the Coronation on 2 June. UHF transmissions began in 1966 with the first colour transmissions in 1970, and the VHF television signal was switched off in 1985.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.8689, -1.7711
- Established
- 1953
- Official site
- trigpointing.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7228345 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Pontop Pike transmitting station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Pontop Pike transmitting station?
- Pontop Pike transmitting station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.8689°, -1.7711°.
- When was Pontop Pike transmitting station built?
- Pontop Pike transmitting station dates to 1953.