There are several interesting surviving features at this former radar station.
A 350 foot radar mast, a remnant of WW2's Chain Home network provided an early warning of Luftflotte invasions into central England and is now used for training RAF aerial erectors.
Four tropospheric scatter dishes, built in 1959 as one of the 82 stations in NATO's ACE High program (a long range cold war communication system) remain at the far end of the site and are now used by sheep as shelter.
There are a handful of buildings still there too, including a transmitter block and a pill box.
This visit however focused on the tower, which was one of four transmitter masts (there would also have been four receiver masts).
This is an impression I found of how the site might have looked in its heyday:
Although fascinated by it, I'm still pretty baffled by the system, but this diagram gives some kind of explanation.
The site was decommissioned in the 80s and mostly demolished in the 90s. Here are some photos of the ascent:
Sunrise from upper platform
Looking up
Looking down
Looking north
Looking east
Looking south
Thanks for reading!
A 350 foot radar mast, a remnant of WW2's Chain Home network provided an early warning of Luftflotte invasions into central England and is now used for training RAF aerial erectors.
Four tropospheric scatter dishes, built in 1959 as one of the 82 stations in NATO's ACE High program (a long range cold war communication system) remain at the far end of the site and are now used by sheep as shelter.
There are a handful of buildings still there too, including a transmitter block and a pill box.
This visit however focused on the tower, which was one of four transmitter masts (there would also have been four receiver masts).
This is an impression I found of how the site might have looked in its heyday:
Although fascinated by it, I'm still pretty baffled by the system, but this diagram gives some kind of explanation.
The site was decommissioned in the 80s and mostly demolished in the 90s. Here are some photos of the ascent:
Sunrise from upper platform
Looking up
Looking down
Looking north
Looking east
Looking south
Thanks for reading!
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