The Tatsfield Receiving Station – known formally as the BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Station[2] – was a radio broadcasting signals-receiving and frequency-measuring facility operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the North Downs just south of London in the United Kingdom.
The station was in the parish of Titsey near the larger village of Tatsfield in the county of Surrey, just outside Greater London.
The work of the Keston station was moved the short distance to the new Tatsfield facility in 1929, initially with a staff of three.
Signals from Sputnik 1 were received at Tatsfield in October 1957, and the station also monitored transmissions from subsequent Soviet space missions.
[5] Its functions were transferred to the Crowsley Park facility, which was expanded and renamed the BBC Receiving Station to mark the combination of roles.