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BT Tower

The BT Tower, formerly known as the Post Office Tower and the GPO Tower, is a landmark and telecommunications tower in , . Until 2024 it was the tallest structure in the city, being surpassed by the topping out of both the Octagon and One Eastside that year, which now share the title.
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Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Tower
  • Description: telecommunications tower in the West Midlands
  • Also known as: “Birmingham BT Tower”, “British Telecom Tower”, and “BT Tower, Birmingham”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Saint Paul’s Church.

Museum
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a and art gallery in , England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. is situated 1,200 feet south of BT Tower.

Church
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Paul's is a Church of England church in the Georgian St Paul's Square in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, England. is situated 700 feet northwest of BT Tower.

Library
Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a public library in , England. It is situated on the west side of the city centre at Centenary Square, beside the Birmingham Rep and . is situated 1,700 feet southwest of BT Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gun Quarter and Jewellery Quarter.

Locality
The is a district of the city of , England, which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns.

Suburb
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY 2.0.
The is an area of central , , in the north-western area of Birmingham City Centre, with a population of 19,000 in a 1.07-square-kilometre area.

Locality
is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the Westside district of , England. It was named after Brindley Place, the name of the street around which it is built.

BT Tower

Latitude
52.48355° or 52° 29′ 1″ north
Longitude
-1.90427° or 1° 54′ 15″ west
Elevation
449 feet (137 metres)
Height
384 feet (117 metres)
Open location code
9C4WF3MW+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 227068713
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­tower
Geo­Names ID
7284436
Wiki­data ID
Q4836768
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In Other Languages

“BT Tower” goes by many names.
  • Polish: “BT Tower”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “BT Tower”. Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.