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HD on Freeview is gradually being rolled out, finishing early 2012. The HD switch dates have been released up until mid 2011, others will be released soon. Keep checking back for the updates - the will be added as soon as we receive them.
 
Some areas have had their Freeview HD date brought forward such as London, Crystal Palace and Granada regions, (Manchester, Winter Hill transmitter) were switched over on 2nd December 2009. Others will be added as the areas switch.
 

   
ENGLAND
Switchover Area Transmitter Group HD Roll-out Date Done Additional Info
London Crystal Palace * 2 Dec 2009 HD Switchover completed pre switchover
Manchester Winter Hill * 2 Dec 2009 HD Switchover completed at switchover
New Castle and Tyneside Pontop Pyke * Feb 2009 HD Switchover completed pre switchover
West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Emley Moor * Mar 2010 HD Switchover completed pre switchover
Birmingham † Lichfield * Mar 2010 HD Switchover completed pre switchover
Liverpool Central, Lancashire, Cheshire, North Staffordshire Winter Hill relays * Mar 2010 HD Switchover completed post switchover
Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset, Dorset Stockland Hill * Apr 2010 HD Switchover completed post switchover
Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire Mendip * 7 Apr 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Devon, Cornwall, Isles of Scilly Beacon Hill, Caradon Hill,
Huntshaw Cross, Redruth		 Aug 2010   post switchover
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertforshire, part of Northamptonshire Sandy Heath 13 Apr 2011   at switchover
parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and south Nottinghamshire, Rutland Nottingham, Waltham 13 Apr 2011   at switchover
North Shropshire, South Cheshire The Wrekin 20 Apr 2011   at switchover
Parts of Berkshire Buckinhamshire, Derbyshire, north Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, south Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire Broomsgrove, Fenton,
Lark Stoke, Oxford, Ridge Hill, Sutton Coldfield		 20 Apr 2011   at switchover
Part of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk Sudbury, Tacolneston 2011   at switchover
Lincolnshire parts of Humberside and east Yorkshire Belmont, Olivers Mount 2011   at switchover
Nottinghamshire Chesterfield, Shefield 2011   at switchover
Part of Berkshire, Hampshire, part of Wiltshire Hannington, Midhurst 2012   at switchover
Part of Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex Rowridge, Whitehawk Hill 2012   at switchover
Sussex Heathfield, Hastings, Tunbridge Wells 2012   at switchover
Kent Bluebell Hill, Dover, Margate 2012   at switchover
Northumberland Chatton 2012   at switchover
South Yorkshire Bilsdale 2012   at switchover
 
SCOTLAND
Switchover Area Transmitter Group HD Roll-out Date   Additional Info
Parts of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Central Scotland Black Hill * Feb 2010 HD Switchover completed pre switchover
Shetland Bressay * 19 May 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Orkney Keylang Hill * 26 May 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Caithness and north Sutherland Rumster Forest 16 Jun 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Isle of Lewis, Western Isles, North-west Eitshal 21 Jul 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover

Isle of Skye, Sutherland, Wester Ross

 Skriag 28 Jul 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Angus, Dundee, parts of Fife, Perth Angus 18 Aug 2010   at switchover
Aberdeenshire, Kincardinshire Durris 15 Sep 2010   at switchover
Parts of Easter Ross, Morayshire, Banffshire, Strathspey Knockmore 22 Sep 2010   at switchover
Inverness, Comartyshire, Great Glen, Ross-shire Rosemarkie 20 Oct 2010   at switchover
South-west Highlands and Islands Torosay 27 Oct 2010   at switchover
Cumbria, South Lake District, south-west Scotland Caldbeck Oct 2010   post switchover
Scottish Borders Selkirk Nov 2010   post switchover
Dunbarton, Stirlingshire Roseneath 25 May 2011   at switchover
Argyll and Bute, Dumfrieshire, parts of Central Scotland, Darvel 25 May 2011   at switchover
Parts of Edinburgh and parts of Fife, Lothian Craigkelly 1 Jun 2011   at switchover
 
WALES
Switchover Area Transmitter Group HD Roll-out Date   Additional Info
Swansea Kilvey Hill * Mar 2010 HD Switchover completed post switchover
Cardiff, Newport, Glamorgan, south-east Wales Wenvoe * 31 Mar 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Parts of west and central Wales,, Ceredigion, Powys Blaenplwyf * 10 Mar 2010 HD Switchover completed at switchover
Carmarthenshire Carmel * Apr 2010 HD Switchover completed post switchover
Rest of Wales, Camarthenshire, Flintshire, Penbrokeshire Long Mountain, Moel y Parc, Preslei Jun 2010   post switchover
Anglesey, Snowdonia Llanddona Jul 2010   post switchover
 
NORTHERN IRELAND
Switchover Area Transmitter Group HD Roll-out Date   Additional Info
North-west Northern Ireland, Londonderry Limavady 2012   at switchover
South-west Northern Ireland, Fermanagh, Tyrone Brougher Mountain 2012   at switchover
Belfast, parts of Antrim, Armagh, Down Divis 2012   at switchover
 
OTHER AREAS
Switchover Area Transmitter Group HD Roll-out Date   Additional Info
ISLE OF MAN Douglas Oct 2010   post switchover
CHANNEL ISLANDS Fremont Point 17 Nov 2010   at switchover

† Parts of the Birmingham area are being served by a temporary transmitter at Lichfield, broadcasting in HD. This will be the case
  until the normal transmitters are switched to digital in 2011

 
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