Selkirk transmitting station
The Selkirk transmitting station is a telecommunications facility located next to Lindean Loch, near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. It includes a 229.1 metres high guyed steel lattice mast, surmounted by a UHF television transmitting antenna array, which brings the overall height of the structure to 238.8 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Tower
- Description: transmitter station in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Selkirk Transmitting Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Victoria Halls and Halliwells House Museum.
Victoria Halls
Town hall
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Victoria Halls is a town hall, which is situated 2 miles west of Selkirk transmitting station.
Halliwells House Museum
Museum
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Halliwells House Museum is situated 2 miles west of Selkirk transmitting station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lindean and Selkirk.
Lindean
Village
Lindean is a village north of Selkirk and the Ettrick Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. In 1590 the parishioners of Lindean had permission to rebuild their church on the north side of the Tweed, at the west end of Boleside, nearer to their houses, and a coble boat was to be provided to ferry the dead over the Tweed if required.
Selkirk
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Selkirk is a market town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 4540. Its main trade of textiles has gone, and it's becoming a commuter town for Edinburgh, linked by the re-opened railway through nearby Galashiels.
Boleside
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boleside is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B7060, south of Galashiels. It is very close to the place where the Ettrick Water joins the River Tweed. Boleside is situated 2½ miles north of Selkirk transmitting station.
Selkirk transmitting station
- Category: transmitter station
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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