THE EMLEY MOOR STATION

THE EMLEY MOOR STATION is the main UHF transmitter site for most of Yorkshire and home to Arqiva's landmark concrete tower.  It is also the main national operations base for the ex-NTL Broadcast division of Arqiva with the responsibility of remotely monitoring their entire UK broadcast transmitter network.
Completed in 1971, the 330.5-metre (1083-ft) concrete tower is the third transmission structure to occupy this site, superceding both the original 135-metre (445-ft) lattice tower (dismantled in 1966) and the replacement 385-metre (1265-ft) cylindrical mast which collapsed here on 19 March 1969.
The short-lived cylindrical mast was jointly the tallest man-made structure in the UK (and Europe) along with the identical 385-metre mast which still exists at the Belmont station, albeit at reduced height since re-engineering for Digital Switchover.
The concrete tower is however the tallest self-supporting structure in the UK and was awarded Grade II Listed status in 2002.
As a widely-recognised landmark amongst the population it serves, the tower is still predominantly referred to as 'The Emley Moor Mast', possibly a legacy of the previous structure, even though it is easily the most far-removed from the definition of a 'mast' than any other transmitting structure in the UK.