If you live in the area you can’t have missed it. It looks like a mini Post office Tower perched on the hill near to where the road splits towards Wotton-under-Edge and Dursley.
Obviously there’s no restaurant at the top of the tower like the one in London used to have and the entrance isn’t very glamorous either. The door at the foot of the tower in the photo below looks more like an airlock!
It’s changed over the years, mostly it looks like communication isn’t its strong point any longer as all the dishes and aerials have been removed. There’s more of those on the TV transmitter across the road!
The photos below show how it used to look. I’m not sure of the date but I probably took them in the 90s. As you can see, it had a lot of antennas on it back then!
The dishes would have been lined up with other communications towers not too far away as high frequency radio signals go in straight lines rather than follow the curvature of the earth. Most of the communications traffic is probably now carried over the Internet or via satellite links.
The approach road from the A4135 has some great views looking down the valley into Wotton.
Access to it is easy, take the road to Ozleworth Park and the road splits to go either side of it. If you’re into towers such as this it’s worth a look. If it’s no longer used for anything it might get pulled down.
If anybody has any technical info on the tower or photos taken from the top they don’t mind me publishing please contact me.
I’ve put a video of it on the Stroudie Central YouTube channel.
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