Pye Green BT Tower is a tall telecommunication tower built of
reinforced concrete
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Pye Green
Pye Green is part of Hednesford, Staffordshire, England, running from Chadsmoor and Hednesford, across the Pye Green valley and to the edge of The Chase. It is situated between the A34 and A460 roads.
The area consists mainly of mixed private an ...
,
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
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England
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(). Standing on the far southern edge of
Cannock Chase
Cannock Chase (), often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is managed by Forestry E ...
, it is one of fourteen telecommunication towers in the United Kingdom built of reinforced concrete. Pye Green was constructed as part of the British
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Backbone
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" radio communications network.
Its combination of elevation and height give it line-of-sight to the
BT Tower in Birmingham and
Sutton Common
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in Cheshire.
Services available
Analogue radio (FM VHF)
Digital radio (DAB)
See also
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British Telecom microwave network The British Telecom microwave network was a network of point-to-point microwave radio links in the United Kingdom, operated at first by the General Post Office, and subsequently by its successor BT plc. From the late 1950s to the 1980s it provided ...
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Telecommunications towers in the United Kingdom
Telecommunications towers in the United Kingdom are operated mainly by Arqiva. Arqiva operates the transmitters for UK terrestrial TV and most radio broadcasting, both analogue and digital. BT also operates a number of telecommunications towe ...
References
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Campbell, D., 1983. ''War Plan UK'', p243, p245. Paladin edition. .
* Laurie, P., 1983. ''Beneath the City Streets'', p. 243, p. 246. Granada edition. .
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, 1956–1962. ''Proposed relay station sites for the General Post Office ("The Backbone Scheme")''. File No. COU1/38.
Fox, S., and Lamont, R., 2003. ''The Towers of Backbone''.
External links
The Transmission Gallery: photographs, coverage maps and information
Towers in Staffordshire
Cannock Chase
Communication towers in the United Kingdom
British Telecom buildings and structures
Transmitter sites in England
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