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The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated next to the B1225, one mile west of the village of Donington on Bain, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England (grid reference TF217837). It is owned and operated by Arqiva. It includes a guyed tubular steel mast, which at 1,265 feet (385 m) is the tallest structure in the UK (and in the European Union).

Constructed in 1965, it came into service on December 20 of that year. (An identical mast was constructed in 1964 at Emley Moor near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, but that mast collapsed due to guy failure caused by icing and high winds on March 19, 1969.) In 1967 meteorological equipment was added to the mast extending its height to 1,272 ft (388 m). From its location, high in the Lincolnshire Wolds, it is used to broadcast both analogue and digital television and radio to parts of Lincolnshire, north Nottinghamshire, eastern South Yorkshire, north-west Norfolk, Hull and East Yorkshire. When it was first operated it transmitted (amongst others) pictures from Independent Television station Anglia Television. Following a re-organisation of ITV coverage in 1972, from 1974 it started transmitting pictures from neighbouring station Yorkshire Television instead, which it continues to do to this day.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_transmitting_station
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Coordinates:   53°20'9"N   -0°10'18"E

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  • This is the tallest structure of any kind in Europe
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