Northern England
Emley Moor
TV Channels:
BBC A: 47 - D3&4: 44 - BBC B: 41 - SDN: 33 - Arq A: 36 - Arq B: 48
Mux 7: 55 - Local Mux: 39
Capital FM (Yorkshire): 105.1 Heart FM (Yorkshire): 106.2
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A -
Bradford & Huddersfield: 11B- Leeds: 12D
The Emley Moor transmitter is 1 mile west of the village centre of Emley. It is made up of a 330.4-metre concrete tower that started broadcasting tv and radio in 1971. It is the tallest freestanding structure in the the country and the 24th tallest in the world. The tower's current official name is The Arqiva Tower.
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Winter Hill
TV: BBC A: 32 - D3&4: 34 - BBC B: 35S - DN: 29 - Arq A: 31 - Arq B: 37
Mux 7: 55 Local Mux: 24/21/40GI: 27
Radio 1: 98.2 - Radio 2: 88.6 - Radio 3: 90.8 - Radio 4: 93.0
Radio Lancashire: 103.9
Heart FM (North West): 105.4 Rock FM: 97.4 - Smooth Radio (North West): 100.4
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A - Lancashire: 12A Liverpool: 10C - Manchester: 12C
Winter Hill is the main transmitter for the North West of England but can also be received in North and East Wales and part of the midlands
Belmont
TV:
BBC A: 22 - D3&4: 25 - BBC B: 28 - SDN: 30 - Arq A: 23 - Arq B: 26 - Mux 7: 55 - Local Mux: 32
BBC Radio: Radio 1: 98.3 - Radio 2: 88.8 - Radio 3: 90.9 - Radio 4: 93.1
Radio Lincolnshire: 94.9 - Classic FM: 100.5 - Lincs FM: 102.2
Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A - Lincolnshire: 12A
The Belmont transmitting station is situated one mile west of the village of Donington near Market Rasen
and Louth in Lincolnshire. It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
It has a guyed tubular steel mast, with a lattice upper section. The mast is now 1,154 feet (351.7 m)
high although it was originally higher.
It was built in 1965 and it began transmissions on 20 December of that year.
Between October 2009 and April 2010, the mast was shortened as part of the Digital Switchover works,
most of the top section above the fifth stay level was removed.
The transmitter broadcasts digital television and both analogue and digital radio to Lincolnshire, eastern Yorkshire, northern parts of Norfolk and some parts of Nottinghamshire. When it was first operated it transmitted (amongst others) ITV station Anglia Television. Following a re-organisation of ITV
coverage in 1972, from 1974 it started transmitting neighbouring station Yorkshire Television instead,
which it continues to do to this day. Due to most of the region being flat, Belmont has few relay stations although there is a main relay station at Oliver's Mount covering the Scarborough area.
Chesterfield
TV:BBC A: 31 - D3&4: 37 - BBC B: 29 - SDN: 43 - Arq A: 46 - Arq B: 40
BBC Radio: Radio 1: 98.6 - Radio 2: 89.0 - Radio 3: 91.2 - Radio 4: 93.4
Radio Sheffield: 94.7
Ind. Local Radio: Greatest Hits Radio (Chesterfield): 107.4
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sheffield: 11C
Chesterfield receives TV from Emley Moor, Network FM from Sutton Coldfield and Radio Sheffield from Holme Moss.
The transmitter serves Chesterfield in Derbyshire and surrounding areas.
The transmitter is vertically polarised and the transmitting aerials are 231 metres with the actual tower being around 50 metres.
Calver Peak
TV:BBC A: 31 - D3&4: 37 - BBC B: 29 - SDN: 43 - Arq A: 46 - Arq B: 40
BBC Radio: Radio 1: 98.6 - Radio 2: 89.0 - Radio 3: 91.2 - Radio 4: 93.4
Radio Sheffield: 94.7
Ind. Local Radio: Greatest Hits Radio (Chesterfield): 107.4
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sheffield: 11C
Chesterfield receives TV from Emley Moor, Network FM from Sutton Coldfield and Radio Sheffield from Holme Moss.
The transmitter serves Chesterfield in Derbyshire and surrounding areas.
The transmitter is vertically polarised and the transmitting aerials are 231 metres with the actual tower being around 50 metres.
Hope
TV: BBC A: 28 - D3&4: 22 - BBC B: 25
This Freeview Light transmitter is a relay of Shatton Edge and serves a small area of Bradwell and Castleton.
Glossop
TV: BBC A: 28 - D3&4: 25 - BBC B: 22
Imagine FM: 106.4
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B Digital One: 11D
Glossop receives its signal from the Winter Hill Transmitter. It covers the town and surrounding area.
Tideswell Moor
TV: BBC A: 40 - D3&4: 43 - BBC B: 46
This Freeview Light transmitter is fed from Emley Moor and covers the Peak village of Tidleswell and other near by villages. (See Below)
Buxton
TV: BBC A: 27 - D3&4: 24 - BBC B: 21
Radio 1: 99.6 - Radio 2: 90.0 - Radio 3: 92.2 - Radio 4: 94.4
Radio Derby: 96.0 - Imagine FM: 106.4
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B
This Freeview Light relay transmitter receives its signals from the Winter Hill Main Station. It stands on a hill to the north of the Derbyshire town in the Peak District.
Blackburn in Rotherham
Digital TV: BBC A: 40D3&4: 43BBC B: 46
This Freeview Light transmitter is situated just off the M1 near to the meadow Hall Shopping Centre.
It is on a housing development. It receives it signals from the Emley Moor main transmitter.
The previous pictures were replaced when I visited the site again on April 8th 2021
Holme Moss
BBC Radio: Radio 1: 98.9Radio 2: 89.3Radio 3: 91.5Radio 4: 93.7
Radio Leeds: 92.4 Radio Manchester: 95.1 Radio Sheffield: 104.1
Classic FM: 101.1
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Bradford & Huddersfield: 11B
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Oliver's Mount
TV: BBC A: 29 - D3&4: 31 - BBC B: 37 - SDN: 32 - Arq A: 34 - Arq B: 35
Local Mux: 39
Radio 1: 99.5Radio 2: 89.9Radio 3: 92.1Radio 4: 94.3
Radio York: 95.5
Greatest Hits Radio (Scarborough): 96.2
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - North Yorkshire: 10C
The transmitter stands on a hill overlooking the seaside town.
Shatton Edge
TV: BBC A: 32 - D3&4: 34 - BBC B: 35
This Freeview Light Transmitter is a relay of Emley Moor (from Tideswell) . It covers an area of the Peak District including hathersage, Eyam, Grindleford and other villages. (See below).
Photo by Mark Keeble on July 3rd 2021
Burbage
TV: BBC A: 47 - D3&4: 41 - BBC B: 44
This Freeview Light Transmitter is just outside Buxton in Derbyshire serving a small area hidden
from the Buxton Transmitter. It is basically a wooden pole with aerials on the top.
Blackpool Tower
Greatest Hits Radio (Blackpool): 96.5
No awards for guessing where this is. Right on the top of the tower. What a great site and sight.
Congleton
BBC A: 44 - D3&4: 41 - BBC B: 47
This Free view light relay for the Cheshire town of Congleton is on the top of a rather impressive
water tower. The transmitter covers a small area of the town that receives poor pictures from
the Winter Hill main station.
Over Biddoulph
TV: BBC A: 41 - D3&4: 44 - BBC B: 47
This Freeview Light transmitter is a relay of the Winter Hill Transmitter and covers an area of around 4,500 homes in the area of Biddoulph in Staffordshite
Macclesfield
BBC A: 28 - D3&4: 25 - BBC B: 22
This is how the transmitter looked when I photographed it prior to 2003 when it was replaced with the metal mast which can be seen properly on the MB21 site.
Whaley Bridge
TV :BBC A: 45 - D3&4: 39 - BBC B: 42
This Freeview Light transmitter is a relay of Winter Hill. It covers a small area around the village.
Barry Town Hall
TV: BBC A: 44 - D3&4: 41 - BBC B: 47
This Freeview Light Transmitter is in the centre of this North West town.
Brockwell
TV: BBC A: 45 - D3&4: 42 - BBC B: 39
This Freeview Light Transmitter is a replacement to a temporary mast that once covered this area of Chesterfield.
It receives its signals from the Chesterfield station which is north of the town. It is sited on an industrial
site near to the town centre.
Hasland
TV :BBC A: 32 - D3&4: 34 - BBC B: 35This Freeview Light transmitter is fed from the Chesterfield Relay that is not that far away and overlooks
the small town of Hasland.
Sheffield
TV:BBC A: 27 - D3&4: 24 - BBC B: 21 - SDN: 42 - Arq A: 45 - Arq B: 39
Local Mux: 35
Radio 1: 99.5 - Radio 2: 89.9 - Radio 3: 92.1 - Radio 4: 94.3
Radio Sheffield: 88.6 Classic FM: 101.7
Capital FM (Yorkshire): 105.6 Hallam FM: 97.4 - Heart FM (Yorkshire): 107.7
Sheffield Live!: 93.2
Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A - Sheffield: 11C
This major relay transmitter stands on Tapton Hill to the west of the city in the Crosspool area.
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Bilsdale
Digital TV: BBC A: 27 - D3&4: 24 - BBC B: 21 - SDN: 43 - Arq A: 46 - Arq B: 40
Mux 7: 55 - Local Mux: 30
Radio 1: 98.6 - Radio 2: 89.0 - Radio 3: 91.2 - Radio 4: 93.4
BBC Tees: 95.0 Classic FM: 101.6
Capital FM (North East): 106.4 - Heart FM (North East): 100.7 - TFM Radio: 96.6
Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D -Sound Digital: 11A - North Yorkshire: 10C - Teesside: 11B
This is the main transmitter for the Teeside area of the North East.
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Photo by Martin Dawes
Caldbeck
Digital TV: BBC A: 25/27 - D3&4: 28/24 - BBC B: 22/21 - SDN: 23Arq A: 26 - Arq B: 30
Local Mux: 33 and 29
CFM: 96.4
Digital Radio: Digital One: 11D
Caldbeck is a main transmitter that covers Cumbria, the Lake District and parts of the Border region.
It transmits the North West services of BBC and ITV.
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Photo by John Holmes
Pontop Pike
Digital TV: BBC A: 39 - D3&4: 42 - BBC B: 45 - SDN: 32 - Arq A: 34 - Arq B: 35
Local Mux: 33 - Mux 7: 55
Radio 1: 98.1 - Radio 2: 88.5 - Radio 3: 90.7 - Radio 4: 92.9
Radio Newcastle: 95.4
Classic FM: 100.3
Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A
This main transmitter covers a large area of the North East including Newcastle.
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Conisbrough
Digital TV: BBC A: 40 - D3&4: 43 - BBC B: 46
This Freeview Light transmitter is fed from the Emley Moor main station. The rx aerial is underneath the tmx aerial.
This photo was taken by David on April 8th 2021
Clifton Hill
Hallam FM: 103.4
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Sheffield: 11C
Not quite sure which mast has which transmitter aerials - I understand that not as many services
are broadcast from here as in the past. There is a 3rd mast on the site but that is for
a local reservoir. Photo taken on April 8th 2021.
Rotherham
Greatest Hits Radio (Rotherham): 96.1
This rather impressive set of two masts only transmits one radio station at the moment. It is located in the
lovely Boston Castle grounds and is surrounded by woodland walks. The photo was taken on April 8th 2021
Wincobank
Digital TV: BBC A: 29 - D3&4: 31 - BBC B: 37
This Freeview Light Transmitter to the north east of Sheffield city centre is very hard to see and photograph
due to high trees to the front and the railway line behind. David visited and took the photos on April 8th 2021.
Chatton
Digital TV: BBC A: 41 - D3&4: 44 - BBC B: 47 - SDN: 29 - Arq A: 31 - Arq B: 37
Radio 1: 99.7 - Radio 2: 90.1 - Radio 3: 92.3 - Radio 4: 94.5
Radio Newcastle: 96.0
Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B
This main station covers an area south of Berwick on Tweed in the North East England.
Photo by Graham Robson
Oughtibridge
Digital TV: BBC A: 23 - D3&4: 26 - BBC B: 30
This low power Freeview Light transmitter north of Sheffield is in a fairly high and isolated position. It is a relay of the Emley Moor Transmitter and broadcasts into the Upper Don valley covering an area shielded from Emley Moor and Belmont. It serves roughly 1500 homes in its service area.
Transmitter Coverage Map - UK Free TV
Photo by David Neale
Totley Rise
TV: BBC A: 33 - D3&4: 36 - BBC B: 48
This Freeview Light relay transmitter covers an area of South Sheffield. It receives it signal from Emley Moor via the Sheffield relay. It is sited tastefully in a residential area.
The photos were taken by David on April 29th 2021.
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