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Photos by Malcolm Pritchard & Lee Goulding

Dog Hill Greater Manchester
Landlord: IBA NGR: SD951091 Site Height: Structure Height: 30m
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Comments: Dog Hill is a relay of Winter Hill

Our first photo of this Winter Hill relay was taken by Malcolm Pritchard in June 1983. The remainder were taken by Lee Goulding about 20 years later...

Dog Hill sits near the top of a Pennine ridge overlooking most of Greater Manchester. Dog Hill serves the towns of Royton and Shaw and the village of New Hey all of which sit between the towns of Rochdale and Oldham. The whole area is shadowed from Winter Hill to some extent by local hills to the west though only in Royton and New Hey is Dog Hill widely used.

Picture 01 shows the mast overlooking Shaw on a very clear evening with a pleasant sunset, picture 02 shows the mast in a bit more detail including the directional transmit aerials which broadcast only to the west of the site; below the mobile phone aerials you can see the receive Yagi pointing at Winter Hill which is 20 or so miles to the west. Winter Hill (but not the transmitter) can be seen in picture 03 - it is the highest part of the ridge of hills in the distance.

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