Tolsford Hill BT Tower
Tolsford Hill BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of reinforced concrete at Tolsford Hill on the North Downs near Folkestone, Kent. Tolsford Hill BT Tower is one of the few British towers built of reinforced concrete and is 67.36 metres high.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: GkgAlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tolsford Hill and Church of St Mary and St Radegund.
Church of St Mary and St Radegund
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary and St Radegund is situated 1 mile west of Tolsford Hill BT Tower.
Dollands Moor Freight Yard
Photo: Ron Strutt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dollands Moor Freight Yard is a railway freight yard near Folkestone in Kent, and was purpose built in 1988 for the Channel Tunnel. It is to the west of the Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal, and just to the south of the M20 Motorway. Dollands Moor Freight Yard is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Tolsford Hill BT Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Etchinghill and Newbarn.
Etchinghill
Village
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Etchinghill is a village in Kent, England, about 5 km north of Hythe, and 1 km north of the Channel Tunnel terminal at Cheriton, near Folkestone. It is in the civil parish of Lyminge.
Newbarn
Hamlet
Newbarn is a hamlet around a crossroads northwest of Etchinghill in Kent, England. Etchinghill Golf Club is on the road between the two. Tolsford Hill BT Tower can clearly be seen on Tolsford Hill to the south. It is in the civil parish of Postling.
Postling
Village
Photo: Julian P Guffogg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Postling is a village and civil parish situated near the Roman road of Stone Street, about 17 miles south of Canterbury, Kent, in South East England. Postlinges is the spelling used in the Domesday Book, where it was part of the lands of Hugo de Montfort; Postlinge is also seen in old records.
Tolsford Hill BT Tower
- Type: Tower
- Description: telecommunication tower in Lyminge, Kent, UK
- Category: communication tower
- Location: Lyminge, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.10748° or 51° 6′ 27″ northLongitude
1.08473° or 1° 5′ 5″ eastElevation
594 feet (181 metres)Height
221 feet (67 metres)Open location code
9F33434M+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 332037050OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerGeoNames ID
11127714Wikidata ID
Q7814621
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