Rowridge is a
hamlet
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on the
Isle of Wight
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towards the west in an area known as West Wight. It is the location of the
Rowridge transmitting station
The Rowridge transmitting station is a facility for FM radio and television transmission at Rowridge on the Isle of Wight in southern England.
It currently has a tall guyed mast, owned and operated by Arqiva (previously National Grid Wire ...
, a 149.6 metres (491 ft) tall guyed transmitting mast. It is in the
civil parish
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of
Newport and Carisbrooke.
Villages on the Isle of Wight
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