Burrington is a small village at the bottom of the Chew Valley in Somerset, a few miles to the west of Ubley and about 10 miles to the east of Weston-Super-Mare. The area lies in the shadow of the Mendip Hills and is therefore shielded from the main Mendip transmitter, which lies only 8 miles to the SE.
The relay fills the gap between the Ubley and Hutton relays, and unusually employs horizontally polarised log periodics, with six antennas pointing towards the village of Blagdon, and two towards Burrington itself. The vertical receive antenna points at the Ubley relay.
Burrington was originally an IBA landlord site which entered service on 3-Nov-1983 to serve a population of about 800 people. Channel 4 was added on 13-Sep-1985, at the same time as the parent site at Ubley. The original channel allocation was a standard group of 55/62/59/65. This was changed on 2-Feb-1999 to 57/63/60/53 as a consequence of interim DTT at Mendip. |
