Sutton Common BT Tower

Sutton Common

Sutton Common BT Tower
Location Macclesfield, Cheshire
Coordinates 53°12′22″N 2°06′03″W / 53.2061°N 2.1007°W / 53.2061; -2.1007Coordinates: 53°12′22″N 2°06′03″W / 53.2061°N 2.1007°W / 53.2061; -2.1007
Grid reference SJ9327467710
Built 1960s

Sutton Common BT Tower is a 72-metre (238-foot) radio tower built of reinforced concrete at Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is one of the few communication towers in the United Kingdom built of reinforced concrete and relays signals to Heaton Park in the north and Pye Green to the south.

The tower stands near the summit of Croker Hill on the western edge of the Peak District national park.

Sutton Common is notable because it was originally conceived as part of the 1950s 'Backbone' chain designed to provide the UK and NATO with survivable communications during nuclear war.[1]

Building a wind farm near the transmitter was considered, but wasn't able to happen due to interruption that may have been caused by the blades to the radio waves.

Channels available from this site

Analogue radio

Frequency kW [2] Service
96.4 MHz 0.250 Signal 1
106.9 MHz 0.300 Silk FM

Digital radio

Frequency Block kW Operator
220.352 MHz 11C 0.5 Manchester
229.072 MHz 12D 0.5 Stoke & Stafford

See also

References

  1. ↑ Backbone radio link and radio standby to line links for safeguarding vital communications. GPO paper for the Official Committee on Civil Defence, July 1956. The National Archives (UK) CAB 134/1207
  2. ↑ Radio Listeners Guide 2010


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