The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated next to the B1225, one mile west of the village of Donington on Bain in the civil parish of South Willingham, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England (grid reference TF217837). It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
It has a guyed tubular steel mast, with a lattice upper section. The mast was shortened in April 2010 and is now 351.65 m (1,154 ft) in height. Prior to this it was 387.5m high and was considered to be the tallest structure of its kind in the world (taller masts, such as the KVLY-TV mast in the United States, use steel lattice construction), the tallest structure of any type in the United Kingdom and also the tallest structure within the European Union. After the top section was removed the mast's reduced height relegated it to 14th highest structure in the EU and second highest in the UK after Skelton. The current world's tallest guyed tubular steel mast is TV Tower Vinnytsia in Ukraine.
Despite the mast being shortened it can been seen in daylight on clear days from most areas close to and within the Lincolnshire Wolds and on clear nights its bright red aircraft warning lights can be very widely seen across much of Lincolnshire from as far north as the River Humber and Grimsby and from west of the county it can be seen clearly from both Lincoln, Gainsborough and Grantham and from the south of the county it can be seen clearly as far away as Spalding and Bourne and can also be very clearly seen in the east of the county as far away as Skegness, Mablethorpe and most areas along the Lincolnshire Coast. The aircraft warning lights from the mast can also be seen from many parts of Nottinghamshire, coastal areas of North West Norfolk and even a few parts of Derbyshire on very clear nights.
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