The landscape was already attracting visitors before John Curtis wrote in the 1830s: he suggests that the view extends to over or one-twelfth of England and Wales. Potter also notes of the view from Bardon Hill that it probably commands a greater extent of surface than any other point of view on the island and that An outline, described from the extremity of this view, would include nearly one-fourth of England and Wales. It may be deemed one of the most extraordinary points of view in Nature. This has attracted telecommunication companies, and large transmitters and radio masts have replaced both the Summer House and Queen Adelaide's Bower.