Tinshill BT Tower

Local nameTinshill BT Tower
LocationLeeds, UK

The Tinshill BT Tower is a 60.96 metres tall telecommunication tower located on the east side of Otley Old Road in the north of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is in an elevated part of Leeds, with its base 192 metres above sea level. It is one of fourteen BT towers built of reinforced concrete.

The tower is 53 metres tall and consists of a steel lattice tower on top of a concrete base. It was built in 1951 as part of chain of stations relaying television between Telephone House in Manchester and Kirk O'Shotts in Scotland, part of the British Telecom microwave network.In 2002 it had 16 large microwave dishes providing point-to-point communications, and roughly 50 other small microwave dishes, mobile phone, paging and TETRA transmitters.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinshill_BT_Tower

Address Leeds LS16 7, United Kingdom

Coordinates 53°51'17.013" N -1°36'43.149" E

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