 Tinshill BT Tower viewed from southwest | |
  Tinshill BT Tower (West Yorkshire) | |
| Location | Leeds,West Yorkshire |
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| Coordinates | 53°51′17″N1°36′43″W / 53.854722°N 1.611944°W /53.854722; -1.611944 |
| Grid reference | SE2552239925 |
TheTinshill BT Tower (also known locally asCookridge Tower, orTinshall BT Radio Station) is a 60.96 metres ( 200 ft) tall telecommunication tower located on the east side of Otley Old Road in the north ofLeeds,West Yorkshire,England. It is in an elevated part of Leeds, with its base 192 metres above sea level. It is one of fourteenBT towers built of reinforced concrete.
The tower is 53 metres tall and consists of a steel lattice tower on top of a concrete base. It was built in 1951 as part of chain of stations relaying television between Telephone House in Manchester andKirk O'Shotts in Scotland, part of theBritish Telecom microwave network.[1]
In 2002 it had 16 large microwave dishes providing point-to-point communications, and roughly 50 other small microwave dishes, mobile phone,paging andTETRA transmitters. The BT dishes were 3 and 3.7 metres diameter and mostly transmitted on 11GHz.[2]
In 2002, prompted by a request from the local MP,Harold Best, it was the subject of a study by theHealth Protection Agency, who concluded that the radio emissions from its various transmitters, were well below levels which might cause a risk to health for people nearby.[3]
