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Crowsley Park


Coordinates: 51°30′47″N 0°57′08″W / 51.51306°N 0.95222°W / 51.51306; -0.95222

Crowsley Park is a 160-acre (65 ha)country estate in South Oxfordshire, central-southern England, owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Since the Second World War, Crowsley Park has been the site of a signals-receiving station used by BBC Monitoring, based at Caversham Park, three miles to the south.

Crowsley Park House, a Grade II listed 18th century mansion house, sits in its own grounds within the estate and is still used as a private residence. Smaller houses on the estate — South Lodge (at the main entrance to the park), North Lodge, Keeper's Cottage and Crowsley Park Lodge — are also privately occupied.

Seventy-six acres of woodland on the eastern and northern sides of the park, known as Crowsley Park Woods, is leased to the Forestry Commission.

The remainder of the estate consists of wooded parkland used as cattle and horse pasture. Three (formerly four) very large (11-metre diameter) satellite dishes used by the BBC are on the north side of the estate. Until 2014, there were also many traditional radio aerials (antennas) spread across the park.


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