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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
Photos by Lee Goulding
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This site must be one of the most picturesque in the country being in an especially attractive part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The site is about half a mile south of the village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale and brings television to the northernmost part of the Ribble Valley roughly from Helwith Bridge to head of the valley appropriately enough at Ribblehead which is a popular tourist spot for walkers and Settle-to-Carlisle Railway enthusiasts alike. This area is otherwise very much on the fringe of the Winter Hill and Lancaster transmitters - as a result despite low power Ribblesdale covers quite a wide area.
The first two photos demonstrate the beauty of the mast's location - it is situated in a farmer's field surrounded by trees and overlooked by Pen-y-ghent - one of the Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales.
I struggled a bit to get detailed photos of the mast as the gates to the field were firmly tethered, but pictures 03 & 04 show 4 Yagis just beneath the distinctly lop-sided transmitting aerial. The Yagis point down the valley at Winter Hill which is around 40 miles away.
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