Beacon Hill transmitting station, Paignton

Name: Beacon Hill transmitting station
Address: Paignton, United Kingdom

#21 among attractions in Paignton

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The Beacon Hill transmitting station is an English telecommunications facility located at Beacon Hill, Marldon, Devon. It includes a guyed mast and a free-standing lattice tower, both of which support various antennas. ()

Coordinates: 50°26'47"N, 3°36'39"W

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Paignton United Kingdom

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Beacon Hill transmitting station – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Berry Pomeroy Castle, Paignton Windmill, Marldon, The Blagdon Inn.

1 miW
Forts and castles, Reportedly haunted
Berry Pomeroy Castle, Totnes
27 min walk • Berry Pomeroy Castle, a Tudor mansion within the walls of an earlier castle, is near the village of Berry Pomeroy, in South Devon, England. It was built in the late 15th century by the Pomeroy family which had held the land since the 11th century.
1.2 miE
Windmill
Paignton Windmill, Paignton
31 min walk • Paignton Windmill, also known as Fernicombe Windmill, is a late 18th-century windmill situated on the outskirts of the town of Paignton, Devon, England. It is a Grade II Listed Building, and lies in a partially ruinous state.
1.1 miNE
Area
Marldon, Ipplepen
28 min walk • Marldon is a village in the South Hams in Devon, United Kingdom, to the north-west of Paignton. It is the most northeasterly Civil Parish in the South Hams and includes the village of Compton with Compton Castle.
1.1 miS
Nightlife
The Blagdon Inn, Paignton
29 min walk • Blagdon historically in the parish of Paignton in Devon, England, is an historic manor, the seat of the Kirkham family from the 13th to 17th centuries.
1.7 miSE
Zoo
Wild Planet Trust, Paignton
43 min walk • Wild Planet Trust, formerly known as the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, is a registered charity, set up to run Paignton Zoo after the death of its founder, Herbert Whitley, who established the zoo on his estate at Primley, Paignton in Devon in the 1920s.
1 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Church of St Mary, Paignton
27 min walk • The Church of St Mary, in the village of Collaton St Mary in Devon, was built between 1864 and 1866 in memory of Mary Maxwell Hogg, teenaged daughter of the Rev John Roughton Hogg, owner of the nearby Blagdon Barton estate, and granddaughter of hymnwriter and vicar Henry Francis Lyte. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Beacon Hill transmitting station, Paignton

Facts and practical information

Paignton plan & book

Beacon Hill transmitting station – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Berry Pomeroy Castle, Totnes

Paignton Windmill, Paignton

Marldon, Ipplepen

The Blagdon Inn, Paignton

Wild Planet Trust, Paignton

Church of St Mary, Paignton