Borough Hill mast viewed across a garden centre

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The photograph on this page of Borough Hill mast viewed across a garden centre by Chris as part of the Geograph project.

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Borough Hill mast viewed across a garden centre

Image: © Chris Taken: 2 Jul 2014

Borough Hill is now a Country Park. It is the site of the well-known Daventry masts (11 of them) alongside the M1, which were originally long wave and short wave transmitters. Arnold Frederic Wilkins demonstrated radar, from radio waves from the Borough Hill transmitter on 26 February 1935. This one remaining mast is mainly used for Microwave communications, cell phone antennas and TETRA. See http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=19657#.U7SP55RdWk0 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedon_Bec

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