Kent
Dover District
St Margaret’s at Cliffe

Swingate transmitting station

The Swingate transmitting station is a facility for FM-transmission in the village of , near , . For many years there were three lattice towers with a height of 111 metres.
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  • Type: Industry
  • Description: architectural structure in St Margaret’s at Cliffe, Dover, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Swingate chain home station” and “Swingate Radio Transmitting Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dover Castle and Dubris Pharos.

Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a medieval castle in , , England and is Grade I listed. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described as the "Key to England" due to its defensive significance throughout history. is situated 1 mile southwest of Swingate transmitting station.

Lighthouse
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Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day , , England. As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port. is situated 1 mile southwest of Swingate transmitting station.

Fort
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, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston forts around Dover in southeast . It was built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, to guard the high ground northeast of the strategic , just north of . is situated 3,400 feet west of Swingate transmitting station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dover and West Cliffe.

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is a major port town in East , facing into the English Channel. At just 21 mi from the French port of , it is the closest port to continental Europe on mainland Britain.

Hamlet
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or Westcliffe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of St. Margaret's At Cliffe, in the district, in east , England, near . In 1931 the parish had a population of 88.

Suburb
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including Valley is a village near , in the county of , England. It is noted for the Anglo-Saxon cemetery whose finds now belong to the but are on display at Dover Museum. is situated 2 miles west of Swingate transmitting station.

Swingate transmitting station

Latitude
51.13769° or 51° 8′ 16″ north
Longitude
1.33599° or 1° 20′ 10″ east
Open location code
9F3348QP+39
Open­Street­Map ID
way 698899147
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q7658652
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In Other Languages

From German to Slovenian—“Swingate transmitting station” goes by many names.

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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 “Swingate transmitting station”. Photo: Dhowes9, CC BY-SA 3.0.