The Peterborough transmitting station is a

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and

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facility at

Morborne Morborne is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Morborne lies approximately south-west of Peterborough, near Yaxley. Morborne is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well a ...

Hill, near

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, (). There are two tall structures on adjacent sites: a guyed steel lattice mast belonging to

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, and a tall reinforced concrete tower belonging to BT. These sites are known by their owners as 'Peterborough' and 'Morborne Hill' respectively.

Arqiva mast

A guyed high-steel lattice mast, belonging to

, is used primarily for

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but carries many other services. Originally, this mast was built for broadcasting television on

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. On 30 October 2004, the original mast was destroyed by a fire. It collapsed, seriously damaging the transmitter building at the base. Services were temporarily restored by transferring them to the adjacent BT tower and two temporary masts, including the

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emergency mast which was put in use for the first time. A new replacement mast finished construction in 2006 and is in full service.

Services available

Analogue radio

Digital radio

BT concrete tower

The adjacent tower is one of fourteen reinforced concrete towers owned by BT in the UK. It is used mainly for point-to-point microwave links and forms part of BT's national telecommunications network. It was not damaged by the collapse of the Arqiva mast.

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