Oliver's Mount#Services from transmitter

The Oliver's Mount track is a street circuit composed of twisty public roads and has played host to domestic motorcycling and rallying events for many years. Spectators for race events are known to have reached 58,000. Oliver's Mount racing circuit is the only street circuit in England. Throughout the year it hosts four weekends of motorcycle road racing and numerous hill climb and GB SuperMoto events. With the Bob Smith Spring Road Races, Barry Sheene Classic Road Races, Cock o' the North Road Races and The Gold Cup drawing riders and spectators from all over the British Isles. The races are organised by the 243 Road Racing Association which attracts big name riders from the road racing scene. The circuit itself is {{convert|2.43|mi|km}} in length around Oliver's Mount. It is known as a technical and twisty track that requires a great deal of skill and bravery to tackle, with speeds of upto 170mph.

Oliver's Mount continues to hold motorcycle, British SuperMoto and Hill Climb [https://oliversmount.com/events/ events]. Two Formula III events were held in 1955 and 1956.

In 2018, Oliver's Mount racing was cancelled due to safety concerns. As a result no racing took place.{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirecoastradio.com/news/local-news/2599487/scarboroughs-olivers-mount-race-event-off/|title=Scarborough's Oliver's Mount Race Event OFF|date=6 June 2018|work=Yorkshire Coast Radio|access-date=23 October 2018}} Following this, the ownership of the event changed from the Auto 66 Club and the council granted a lease to a group led by former racers and businessmen Mick Grant & Eddie Roberts, under the name GrantRoberts Ltd.{{cite news|url=https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/racing-is-coming-back-to-oliver-s-mount-in-scarborough-in-2019-1-9631693 |title=Racing is coming back to Oliver’s Mount in Scarborough in 2019 |work='The Scarborough News |date=5 May 2019 |access-date=6 June 2019}} In April 2019 GrantRoberts Ltd was renamed Oliver’s Mount Racing Ltd.{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11786668 |title=Oliver’s Mount Racing Ltd |publisher=Companies House|access-date=6 June 2019}} With support from Scarborough Borough Council, the venue hosted two events in 2019. These were the Barry Sheene Classic on 27 and 28 July and the Gold Cup from 27 to 29 September.Nowadays its run by Husband and wife team Andy Hayes and Wendy Hayes along with a group of experienced officials and is now going from strength to strength now its back upto a full calendar of events.{{cite news|url=https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/people/oliver-s-mount-needs-you-appeal-for-volunteers-before-racing-starts-1-9773103 |title=Oliver's Mount needs you! Appeal for volunteers before racing starts |work=The Scarborough News |date=16 May 2019 |access-date=6 June 2019}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.f1network.net/main/s180/st68599.htm|title=British Superbike race winners 1987 to 1992|website=Motorcycle Racing Online|access-date=6 April 2013}}

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Oliver's Mount broadcasts television and radio services to Scarborough and Filey with signals that can be received as far as Malton.

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Analogue television ceased from Oliver's Mount during August 2011. BBC Two was closed on 3 August and BBC One was temporarily moved into its frequency at the time to allow BBC A to launch in BBC One's old frequency. The remaining analogue services ceased on 17 August 2011.

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{{cite web|url=http://www.scarborough.gov.uk/pdf/Weaponness%20Character%20Appraisal%20-%20Scarborough%20v001.pdf|title=The Weaponness Area Scarborough|page=6|publisher=Scarborough Borough Council|date=4 September 2007|access-date=8 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124003509/http://www.scarborough.gov.uk/pdf/Weaponness%20Character%20Appraisal%20-%20Scarborough%20v001.pdf|archive-date=24 November 2011|url-status=dead}}

{{cite book|title=The Critical review, or, Annals of literature|series=Series The Third|volume=((Volume III No. 1))|first=Tobias George|last=Smollett|publisher=W. Simpkin and R. Marshall|page=319|year=1804|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wxcFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA319}}

{{cite book|title=Theakston's guide to Scarborough: comprising a brief sketch of the antiquities, natural productions, and romantic scenery, of the town and neighbourhood|publisher=S.W. Theakston|page=153|year=1854|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCQvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA153}}

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• Peter Swinger (2001). Motor Racing Circuits In England Then And Now. {{ISBN|0-7110-3104-5}}.

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• [http://www.243racing.co.uk/ Two Four Three Road Racing Association]
• {{cite web|url=http://www.oliversmount.com/ |title=Oliver's Mount |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408094848/http://www.oliversmount.com/ |archive-date=8 April 2014}} unofficial site, with history and pictures
• [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=809/ Photo galleries of Oliver's Mount mast from the mb21 website]

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