Pole Hill Beacon

Anyone travelling by plane from the US to Europe or vice versa, and flying over the UK, will likley have flown over this NATS (National Air Traffic Service) navigation beacon. Located up on the top of Pole Hill (1,400 ft) on the moorland above the town of Todmorden, it lies on the main trans-Atlantic air corridor and on clear days and nights you can see the contrails of the jets that regularly criss-cross the skies above: aircraft also routinely circle and stack on approach to nearby Manchester airport,