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Summary

Second World War Radar Station established by January 1940. the station was sited to provide warning of aircraft approaching the Thames Estuary and London. It played an important role in the defence system used during the Battle of Britain and was attacked on 15th August 1940. The site was more substantial than most radar stations, consisting of transmitter and receiver arrays, a transmitter and receiver hut, a power house and general hut but also a large underground structure amd an above ground structure camoflaged as a domestic house along with a 200 ft tower.

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Monument Types

• RADAR STATION (Modern - 1940 AD to 1960 AD?)

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Second World War Radar Station established by January 1940. the station was sited to provide warning of aircraft approaching the Thames Estuary and London. It played an important role in the defence system used during the Battle of Britain and was attacked on 15th August 1940. The site was more substantial than most radar stations, consisting of transmitter and receiver arrays, a transmitter and receiver hut, a power house and general hut but also a large underground structure amd an above ground structure camoflaged as a domestic house along with a 200 ft tower.(1)

In the ear;ly 1950s the site was chosen to be a ROTOR station but it was downgraded in the later 1950s and the bunker was sealed in the 1960s. (2)

<1> Historic England, Pastscape: the website of the Historic England National Record of the Historic Environment, http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1477107 (Website). SKE31906.

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