Type: - Mobile GCI Station

Opened - late 1942, allocated to Valley Sector, parented by RAF Aberystwyth 

No 77 Wing (xx xxx 1942

No 73 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Jul 1944

Care & Maintenance in early 1944

Closed -1 Jul 1944

Location

County: - Cardiganshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Main Units: -

No 71 Signals Unit (1 Mar 1955 - 14 Oct 1964)

Location

County: - Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Formed - 1 March 1955

No 90 (Signals) Group (1 Mar 1955 - 18 Oct 1957)

No 13 Group ( 18 Oct 1957 - 1 Jan 1961)

No 11 Group (1 Jan 1961 - 1 Apr 1963)

No 13 (Scottish) Sector (1 Apr 1963 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to Inactive (Guarded) status on 14 October 1964, parented by No 112 SU , RAF Stornoway.

Notes.

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Type: - unknown

Opened - unknown

Declared redundant -  by the end of 1942

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Type: - CHL (Type 2) Station (43A)

Opened - 1 Nov 1939

HQ Fighter Command (1 Nov 1939 - 23 Feb 1940, parented by RAF Leuchars)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 72 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 15 May 1944)

No 70 Wing (15 May 1944 - 31 May 1946)

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Inactive Station without equipment - 25 Sep 1950

No 66 Group (25 Sep 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Equipment: - Type 80 Mk 3 (GCI) Station

Due to be installed - between Jun 1956 and Jun 1957

Location

County: - Fife

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching.

No 351 Signals Unit (Anstruther)

Formed - 30 Oct 1952.

The station was placed in C & M at some point until 1 September 1958, when it disbanded and the station was reduced to inactive status,  parented by RAF Leuchars, until 28 May 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry asset, except for the married quarters, which continued to be parented.

No 13 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jan 1961)

No 11 Group (1 Jan - 28 May 1961)

Type: - Unknown

Opened - possibly 22 Jan 1943 in the Biggin Hill Sector, parented by RAF Hawkinge

No 75 Wing (xx Jan 1943 - 1 Jul 1944,

Closed - 1 Jul 1944

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Type: - Unknown

Opened - xx Jul 1941

72 Wing (xx xxx - xx xxx 1941)

Closed - xx xxx 1941?

Location

County: - Barra, Outer Hebrides

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

This station was in the process of forming in Apr 1941

Type: - GCI station, parented by RAF Colerne

Opened -

No 60 Group (xx xxx 1940 - 17 Feb 1941

No 76 Wing (17 Feb - 14 Apr 1941)

Absorbed into the establishment of the Colerne Sector - 14 Apr 1941

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Formation commenced in late 1940

It had closed by the end of Oct 1941 and been dismantled following the opening of the station at Cricklade.

Type: - Mobile GCI station (27G)

Opened - xx Aug 1941

No 79 Wing - xx Aug 1941

No 82 Group - 1 Feb 1942, allocated to the Ballyhalbert Sector, parented by RAF Ballyhalbert

No 72 Wing on 1 Jul 1943

ceased operations on 18 Aug 1944

Type: - Type 8C GCI station

Opened, Care & Maintenance (Stage III) - xx xxx 1944/45

Type: - CHB station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - 7 Mar 1945

RAF Ballinderry closed - 1 Jul 1945.

Location

County: - County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

By Jan 1943 it was an Intermediate Mobile station

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Type: - Unknown

Opened - xx Dec 1940, parented by RAF Sydenham.

No 60 Group ( xx Dec 1940 -

Renamed RAF Rhoddens Point -xx xxx 1941

Roddans Port (Roddansport)61ACHLMarch 1941 (under construction)Late 1941Late 1943 / early 1944
Blanket closures in effect 1 February 1945p355, 365, 418, 522
Recommended for mothballing

Location

County: - County Down, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Remarks:

Type: - Type 8A GCI station

Opened - xx May 1942, allocated to the Eglinton Sector, parented by RAF Eglinton.

No 79 Wing (xx May 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

Care & Maintenance - xx xxx 1942

Transferred to the Ballyhalbert Sector - 1 Jul 1943

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Jul 1945)

Care & Maintenance (Stage III) - by Mar 1945

Closed - 7 Mar 1945

RAF Ballydonaghy closed  - 1 Jul 1945.

Type: -  CHB station

Opened - post Apr 1943

Location

County: - County Armagh, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Type: - Type 2 CHL Station

Opened (Station 78A) - By Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (xx xxx - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sept 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - By Jan 1945

Station disbanded - 31 May 1946

Location

County: - County Down, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching. 

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Type: - Type 8 (Mobile GCI) station (29G)

Opened - Aug 1941

No 79 Wing (xx Aug 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

allocated to the Ballyhalbert Sector, parented by RAF Ballyhalbert - by Feb 1942

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 18 Aug 1944)

Disbanded 18 Aug 1944

Type: -  Type 7 GCI station

Opened - xx xxx 1944?

Disbanded on 31 May 1946.

Transferred as an Inactive Station with equipment - 25 Sep 1950

No 67 Group, (25 Sep 1950 - 1 Apr 1951)

No 12 Group (1 Apr - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 197 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

Location

County: - County Down, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

By Jan 1943 it had become an Intermediate Transportable station but was due to be upgraded to Final standard by mid-Aug 1943.

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

No 197 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

Disbanded - 1 Apr 1956.

Type: - Type 2 CHL station (41A)

Work commenced - Jan 1940

Opened - by Feb 1940, parented by RAF Usworth

HQ Fighter Command (xx - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 73 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jun 1946)

Tower Station Commissioned - xx xxx 1942

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Part of the second 'crash' programme.

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching, it had also been allocated 10cm Mk VI (T) equipment (Type 21 Mk I?).

Officers Commanding: -

xx Jan 1940                  Plt Off-Act Flt Lt H Clarke

18 Sep 1940                Plt Off C I Rutherford

 5 Nov 1940

Type: - Inter Service CD/CHL station

War Office (xx xxx xxxx - 24 Jan 1942

Transferred to the Air Ministry - 24 Jan 1942

No 74 Wing (24 Jan 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 73 Wing (1 Jul 1943

Type: - Type 2 CHL station (+ CMH)

Returned to operational status - 1 Jun 1949

No 73 Wing (1 Jun - 1 Nov 1949)

Northern Signals Area. (1 Nov 1949 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 344 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951.

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching.

The CHL (+ CMH) station was redesignated No 344 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type 7000 (GEE Monitor) Station (No 7132 AMES)

Opened - Jul 1943 - Jan 1944

No 73 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 635 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951.

RAF Medmenham (1 May 1957 - 1 Nov 1958)

The domestic site was reduced to inactive status on 1 May 1958, parented by RAF Bassingbourn in No 1 Group.

No 90 Group (1 - 3 Nov 1958)

Signals Command (3 Nov 1958 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Hertfordshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Type: - Type 8C Transportable GCI (CHB)

Formation commenced - By Feb 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 72 Wing (xx xxx 1941 -

Care & Maintenance (12 Oct 1942 - xx xxx xxxx

Re-opened - By Jun 1943

Care & Maintenance (Stage II)

No 70 Wing on 1 Jul 1943

Disbanded on 31 May 1946

Location

County: - Tiree, Argyll and Bute

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Type: - 10cm Mk VI

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

By the end of 1942 it was available as a stand-by surface watching station only, operating  equipment on a 200ft tower and had been allocated high power transmitters.

Control: -

Opened -

No 90 (Signals) Group (1 Aug 1952 - 16 Mar 1953)

12 Group (16 Mar 1953 - 1 Apr 1963)

No 12 (East Anglian) Sector (1 Apr 1963 -

C & M Party formed on 1 August 1958, parented by RAF Coltishall, until 5 February 1964 on transfer of Air Ministry assets to Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (except married quarters).

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 

Main Units: -

No 222 Signals Unit (1 Aug 1952 - 23 Mar 1953)

HQ Eastern Sector (23 Mar 1953 - 1 Feb 1955)

Eastern Sector Operations Centre (23 Mar 1953 - 1 Aug 1958)

C & M Party (1 Aug 1958 - 5 Feb 1964)

Notes.

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Type: - Type 13 (CMH) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 74 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 55 (10cm Mk IV) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 74 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Type: - Buried Reserve

Opened - 1942/43

No 74 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 7 (GCI) Station

Opened - 25 Oct 1944

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Closed - 1 Aug 1945

Equipment: - Type 80 Mk 3 (GCI) Station

Due to be installed - between Jun 1956 and Jun 1957

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long:  51:59:22N  01:24:02E

Grid ref:  TM334378

Remarks:

This was the site of the first CH station and was involved in the early development work on the system.  It was also one of the first five sites chosen in 1936 for the Intermediate Chain as both a transmitting (one 240 ft tower) and receiving station (two 240 ft towers).  It was retained as one of the sixteen sites in the Main Chain begun in 1937 as Station 26.  Authority for the construction of a Final CH station operating on 22.69 and 27Mc/s was given in Mar 1939.    It ceased being a self-accounting unit on 30 Jul 1940 was was parented by RAF Martlesham Heath.

By Jan 1941 an Emergency Alternative MRU being proposed at Loftmans (26M) but it is not known if this was completed at the moment.

During 1942/43 it was commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve (BR). 

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching operating  equipment which was due to erected on a CH cantilever and had been allocated high power transmitters.

For other units located here see Public Section.

Type: - Type 1 (CH) Station (26)

Opened - xx xxx 1936

HQ Fighter Command (xx xxx 1936 - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (26A)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 14 Mk 1 (with Type 273 Naval equipment), later Type 51

Opened - xx xxx 1942/43

No 75 Wing (xx xxx 1942/3 - 1 Jun 1946

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 16 (Fighter Director)

Opened - xx xxx 1942/43

Ministry of Aircraft Production (xx xxx 1942/43 - 1 Apr 1944)

No 11 Group, administered by No 75 Wing (1 Apr 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Care and Maintenance (Stage I) (5 Oct 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 31 (CD No 1 Mk V)

Opened - xx xxx 1944?

No 75 Wing (xx xxx 1944 - 1 Nov 1944)

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Equipment: - Type 80 Mk 1 (CEW) Station

Commissioned - 5 Sep 1954

Placed on Engineering Standby - 1 Nov 1957

De-commissioned - xx xxx 1960

No 880 Signals Unit

Formed - 28 February 1952

No 90 Group (28 Feb - 13 Nov 1952)

No 11 Group (13 Nov 1952 - xx xxx xxxx)

Disbanded on 15 Apr 1958.

C & M Party (15 Apr - 1 Jun 1958)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 June 1958, parented by No 919 SU (Wartling)

Location

County: - Sussex (East)

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

Work began in 1938 at the site of an 'Advance' CH station to provide additional coverage.

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting or controlled interception and was a stand-by surface watching station with CD/CHL and was operational with 10cm Mk IV equipment but was due to be upgraded to Mk V and had been allocated high power transmitters. 

The GCI station was disbanded on 1 Aug 1945

On 15 August 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to RAF Wartling, Fighter Command, until 1 May 1962 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

It reverted to inactive status on 25 July 1962, parented by RAF Wartling, until 19 August 1963 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 12 Group (25 Jul 1962 - 1 Apr 1963)

No 12 (East Anglian Sector (1 Apr 1963 - 19 Aug 1963)

Type: - CH (Type 1 ) Station (07)

Opened - xx Jun 1940, parented by RAF Kenley

No 60 Group (xx Jun 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 75 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Re-commissioned - 18 Dec 1952

Decommissioned - 5 Sep 1954

Type: - CHL (Type 2) station (07A), later CD/CHL

Opened - xx xxx 1940

No 60 Group (xx xxx 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 75 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 17 May 1944)

Closed - 17 May 1944

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 13 (CMH) Mk II later Type 24

Opened - 20 Jul 1944

HQ, Fighter Command (20 Jul - 24 Nov 1944)

No 60 Group (24 Nov 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 78 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - CMH (Type 13) station.

Opened - xx xxx 1942/43

No 78 Wing (xx xxx 1942/43 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 54 (CHEL) station.

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Disbanded - xx xxx xxxx

Abandoned by 1 Nov 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

This station was in the process of formation in Mar 1941.

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching operating 10cm Mk IV equipment but was due to be upgraded to Mk VI Tower.

In Oct 1945 it was scheduled to be placed in Care & Maintenance (Stage II). 

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station (10A)

Opened - xx Sep 1940

No 60 Group (xx Sep 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 76 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul - 30 Nov 1943)

Personnel and equipment transferred to RAF Boniface Down - 30 Nov 1943

Care & Maintenance (30 Nov 1943 - 8 Jan 1945)

Closed -  8 Jan 1945

Type: - Type 41 (CD No 1 Mk V) Station

Opened - 20 Apr 1944

No 75 Wing (20 Apr 1944 - 1  Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Location

County: - Isle of Wight

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

This site, previously known as Culver Cliff, was taken over from the Army

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching. 

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (37A)

Opened - xx Feb 1940, parented by RAF Driffield

HQ Fighter Command (xx - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 73 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Nov 1951)

Returned to operational status - 1 Jun 1949

Redesignated No 146 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type 54 (CHEL) Station

Opened -

Northern Signals Area

Care and Maintenance on 15 Apr 1948 - 1 Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Nov 1951)

Returned to operational status - 1 Jun 1949

Redesignated No 146 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type 31 Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Type: - Type 7 (GCI) station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Became a lodger unit - 5 Feb 1945

disbanded - 1 Aug 1945

Equipment: - Type 80 Mk 1 (CEW) Station

Installed - between Jun - Dec 1956

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long:  54:08:56N  00:10:30W

Remarks: -

Work on this CHL station (37A), originally known as Flamborough Head began in Jan 1940 and it was operating by the middle of Feb

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching operating 10cm Mk IV equipment but was due to be upgraded to Mk VI Tower and had been allocated high power transmitters.

The CH and CHEL stations were redesignated No 146 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Also see Public Area

It became a satellite of RAF Patrington on 1 December 1961 until 16 September 1963.

No 146 Signals Unit

This was formed on 1 November 1951 by redesignating the CHL, CHEL Station at Bempton under the control of No 12 Group

It was transferred to No 13 Group on 15 July 1955, back to No 12 Group on 1 October 1957. and disbanded on 1 December 1961.

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Type: - Type 2 station

Opened - between Jul 1941 and Jul 1942

72 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 30 May 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - 7 Mar 1945

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Tiree, Argyll and Bute

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Type 54

Opened (as Covehithe) - Jul 1942 and Jul 1943

Renamed RAF Benacre - xx xxx xxxx

No 74 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 73 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Jun 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) (xx Oct 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Location

County: - Norfolk

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Horsham St Faith.

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Horsham St Faith, which ended on 24 August 1953 following its derequisitioning.

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Type: - Type 12 station

Opened - xx xxx 1942

No 75 Wing - xx xxx 1942

Closed - 8 Nov 1944

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Mobile GCI Station (AA)

Commissioned in 1942/43

Closed -

Location

County: - Warwickshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Mobile GCI station (26G)

Opened - xx Aug 1941 allocated to Eglinton Sector, parented by RAF Eglinton

No 79 Wing (xx Aug 1941 - 1 Feb 1942)

No 82 Group (1 Feb - xxx 1942)

By May 1942 it had been replaced by Ballydonaghy.

Location

County: - Downhill, County Derry

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Type 8F Mobile GCI Station

Opened - xx xxx 1942 allocated to the Tangmere Sector, parented by RAF Tangmere.

No 75 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

Care and Maintenance (1 Aug 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 21 Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Disbanded - xx xxx xxxx

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Isle of Wight

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Inter Service CD/CHL station

Opened (Army) - xx xxx xxxx

War Office (xx xxx xxxx - 15 May 1942)

Transferred to the Air Ministry - 15 May 1942

No 79 Wing (15 May 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 8 Jan 1944)

Authorised to close - 8 Jan 1944

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

By the end of 1942, when it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - GCI station

Opened - May and Jul 1942 allocated to the Biggin Hill Sector, parented by RAF Hornchurch

No 74 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

By Oct 1942 it was a reserve station for RAF Durrington.

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - between Jun 1944 and Jan 1945

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

By January 1943 it was being held in reserve in case other stations became unserviceable due to enemy action.

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Type 8 (Mobile GCI) station (18G)

Opened - xx xxx 1941 for allocation to the Northolt Sector, parented by RAF Halton

No 74 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx 1942)

Replaced by East Hill - by Jul 1942

Location

County: - Hertfordshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Inter Service CD/CHL station

Opened (Army) - xx xxx xxxx

War Office (xx xxx xxxx - 6 Apr 1942)

Transferred to the Air Ministry - 6 Apr 1942

No 78 Wing (6 Apr 1942 - 1 Jun 1946)

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) - by Mar 1945

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 52 (CD No 1 Mk VI) Station

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching. 

On 25 September 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to RAF Mount Batten, Maintenance Command, until 25 March 1954, following derequisition of the site.

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station

Opened - 30 Nov 1943

No 75 Wing (30 Nov 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Deactivated - xx xxx xxxx

Returned to operational status - 1 Jun 1949

Southern Signals Area (1 Jun 1949 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Isle of Wight

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was being used by controlled interception (Surface)

It took over the Type 2 (CHL) equipment, personnel and cover responsibility from RAF Bembridge.

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Type 8C (CHB) Transportable GCI Station

Opened - xx xxx 1941

No 72 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 31 May 1946)

Retained for Flying Control purposes only (Type 8C) - by Oct 1945

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Benbecula

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

On 25 Sep 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command, which was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Main units: -

RLG for No 57 OTU (1 Mar 1943 - 6 Jun 1945)

RLG for No 59 OTU (1943 - 1944)

808 Sqn FAA (25 - 26 Sep 1944)

No 500 Signals Unit (31 Mar 1953 - 1 Jan 1959)

RLG for No 6 FTS (Sep 1961 - xxx xxxx)

Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (1 Apr 1962 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 13 Sector (1 Apr 1963 - 17 Mar 1965)

No 13 Sector Communication Flt (1 Mar 1963 - 17 Mar 1965)

No 11 Sector (17 Mar 1965 - 1 Apr 1968)

No 11 Sector Communication Flt (17 Mar 1965 - 1 Apr 1968)

Sector North (1 Apr 1968 - 9 Jan 1992)

No 1 Air Control Centre (1 Apr 1995 - early 2005)

RAF School of Fighter Control (1 May 1990 - Current)

'A' Flt, No 202 Sqn (21 Oct 1975 - xxx 2016)

HQ, No 202 Sqn (Dec 1992 - xxx 2016)

No 19 Sqn (1 Apr 2021 - Current)

No 20 Sqn (1 Jun 2021 - Current)

Location

County: - Northumberland

3.75 miles East of Alnwick

Lat/Long:  55:24:45N  01:35:45W (airfield)

La/Long:  54:24:25N  01:37:16W (Ops site)

Lat/Long: 55:25:19N  01:36:14W (Domestic site)

Grid Ref:  NU259133

Height above Sea Level:  44ft

Notes

Originally set up as a decoy airfield for RAF Acklington it was later upgraded for use as a Coastal OTU, either a parent or a satellite.  It was later re-allocated as a satellite airfield to Eshott. 

It now has two sites, the current Domestic/Administrative site being near the site of the former airfield

Re-opened as an Air Defence Control Centre, by 1957 it was a Group Control Centre.  By 1974 it was a Sector Control Centre with Types 84 and 85 radars.

Operational Control: -

Opened (Decoy) - 1940

Opened (Satellite, RAF Eshott) - xx Nov 1942

No 81 Group (xx Nov 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 12 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 22 Nov 1945)

Closed on transfer to the War Office - 22 Nov 1945

Re-opened (No 500 SU) - 31 Mar 1953

No 90 Group (31 Mar - 15 Apr 1953)

No 12 Group  (15 Apr 1953 - 15 Jul 1955)

No 13 Group (15 Jul 1955 - 1 Jan 1961)

Renamed RAF Boulmer - 1 Jan 1959

No 11 Group (1 Jan 1961 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 2 Group (2005)

Links to related sites/pages

Officers Commanding, Aerial photo of the airfield site on Google Maps, Aerial photo of the domestic site on Google Maps, Aerial photo of the operations site on Google Maps,

Type: - Unknown

Opened - Jul 1941 and Jul 1942

No 76 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 78 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Dorset

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Links to related sites/pages

Type: - Type 1 ('Advance' CH) Station

Opened (RAF Sidmouth) - xx Aug 1940, parented by RAF Exeter

No 60 Group (xx Aug 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

Renamed RAF Branscombe - Nov 1940

No 78 Wing (17 Feb - xx xxx 1941)

Upgraded to CH Station - xx xxx 1941

Type: - Type 1 (CH) Station

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 78 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Chivenor, but on 10 December 1951 this was changed to RAF Exminster.

At some point parenting was transferred to RAF Hope Cove in No 11 Group, until 12 November 1958, when it was transferred to HQ No 19 Group.

It was reduced to inactive status on xx xxx xxxx, parented by HQ No 19 Group, until 5 February 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 1 (ICH) Station

Formation commenced - xx Apr 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 70 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 31 May 1946)

Retained for Flying Control (Type RCH) purposes only - By Oct 1945

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Isle of Lewis

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

On 25 Sep 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command, which was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 1 ('Advance' CH) Station (62)

Opened - xx Jul 1940, parented by RAF Jurby

No 60 Group (xx Jul 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 77 Wing (17 Feb - xx xxx 1941)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 1 (CH) Station

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - post May 1944

Location

County: - Isle of Man

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 12 Station

Opened - between Jul 1942 and Jul 1943

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Care & Maintenance by Jun 1944

Closed - between Jun 1944 and Jan 1945.

Location

County: - Sussex

Lat/Long: 

Operational Control: -

Opened -

Closed -

Notes.

Remarks:

Type: - Mobile GCI Station (AA)

Commissioned - 1942/43

Closed -xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Gloucestershire (now Avon)

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type1 (ICH) Station

Formation commenced - xx Apr 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 70 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 31 May 1946)

Retained for Flying Control (Type RCH) purposes only - by Oct 1945

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Isle of Lewis

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - See RAF Nevin

Opened - xx Jul 1940, parented by RAF Penrhos

No 60 Group (xx Jul - Aug 1940)

Renamed RAF Nevin - xx  Aug 1940

Location

County: - Anglesey

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Main units: -

No 409 Signals Unit (30 Oct 1952 - 1Jan 1959)

Radar Station - Types T80, FPS6 and TPS34. 

ADGE Control and Reporting Centre. 

Ceased operations as a CRC on 30 Nov 2004

Location

County: - Aberdeenshire

Lat/Long:  57:31N  01:47W  Approx

Operational Control: -

Opened (No 409 SU) - 30 Oct 1952

No 90 Group (30 Oct 1952 - 17 Apr 1953)

No 12 Group (17 Apr 1953 - 15 Jul 1955)

No 13 Group (15 Jul 1955 - xx xxx xxxx)

Renamed RAF Buchan - 1 Jan 1959

Closed: -  2004

Notes

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Subterranea Britannica website,  Officers Commanding,

Type: - Unknown

Opened - Jul 1941 and Jul 1942

No 76 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 78 Wing (1 Jul 1943 -xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 7000 Master GEE Site, Southern Heavy Mobile Chain (No 7211 AMES)

Opened - early 1944

No 78 Wing (1 Jul 1944 -31 Jul 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Redesignated No 411 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951.

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

No 411 Signals Unit

This was formed on 1 November 1951 by redesignating the GEE Master Station at Bullbarrow Hill under the control of the Radio Navigation Aids Wing, No 90 Group.

It disbanded on 20 January 1958, with the site being reduced to inactive status on 31 January 1958, parented by No 217 SU (Sopley) from 11 March 1958, until 1 April 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 11 Group (11 Mar 1958 - 1 Apr 1960)

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Type: - Type 7000 (GEE) Station

Opened - around June 1942

No 70 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - 31 May 1946)

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Location

County: - Caithness

Lat/Long: 

Remarks:

On 25 Sep 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command, which was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - CHL Station

The was proposed as Station 85 and may have became Brenish or Broad Bay.

Type: - CHB Station

The was proposed as Station 85A and may have became Eorodale or Islivig.

Location

County: - Isle of Lewis

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Main Units: -

No 459 Signals Unit (Camp Hill North) (30 Apr 1956 - 12 Sep 1961)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Opened -

Reduced to inactive status on 12 September 1961, parented by No 6 FTS, RAF Acklington.

No 23 Group (12 Sep 1961 - xx xxx xxxx)

Parenting transferred to RAF Ternhill on xx xxx xxxx, until 14 July 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets.

CFS, Little Rissington (xx xxx xxxx - 14 Jul 1964)

Notes.

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Type: - No 117 AMES (Heavy Mobile G-H Unit)

Formed - by Nov 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Moved to RAF Wythall - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - No 1205 AMES

Transferred from RAF Hawkshill Down - xx xxx xxxx

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 15 Dec 1947)

Disbanded - 15 Dec 1947

Type: -  Type 7000 Slave Site Heavy Mobile Chain (7223)

Opened - early 1944

Non-operational - xx xxx xxxx

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 9 Mark IV Station

Opened - 18 Aug 1944

Closed -xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This was used as one of the first five sites chosen in 1936 for the Intermediate Chain as both a transmitting (one 240 ft tower) and receiving station (two 240 ft towers).  It was retained as one of sixteen sites Main Chain begun in 1937 as Station 22.  Authority for the construction of a Final CH station operating on 27Mc/s was given in Mar 1939. 

By Jan 1941 an Emergency Alternative MRU was being proposed at Cedars (22M) but it is not known if this was completed at the moment.

In early 1951, the redundant site was parented by the Aircrew Selection Centre, RAF Hornchurch in Technical Training Command, until 20 October 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Type: - Type 1 (CH) - see remarks

Opened - xx xxx 1936, parented by RAF Hornchurch.

HQ Fighter Command (xx xxx 1936 - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

Care & Maintenance (xx xx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx

75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded on 1 Jun 1946

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Type: - Type 31 Station (10cm Mk V)

Opened - by the end of 1942

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1945)

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Type: - Type 52 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jun 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946.

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Unknown

Opened - xx Nov 1940, parented by RAF St Eval

No 60 Group (xx Nov 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 78 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

Probably closed - between Dec 1941 and Jun 1942

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This site opened in about Jun 1940 under the control of No 60 Group, parented by RAF St Eval but was resited and renamed RAF Trerew in August  1940.

Officers Commanding: -

 5 Sep 1940                      Flt Lt Barham

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Type: -

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 72 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

Probably closed - between Jun 1942 and Jan 1943

Location

County: - Isle of Mull

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This station was in the process of forming in April 1941

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Type: - Unknown

Opened (RAF Tan-y-Bwlch) - xx Oct 1940

No 60 Group (xx Oct 1940 - 17 Feb 2941)

Renamed - 18 Dec 1940

No 76 Wing (17 Feb 2941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 77 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May - 25 Oct 1944)

Care & Maintenance - by Jun 1944

Closed - 25 Oct 1944.

Location

County: - Cardiganshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This was originally formed in October 1940 in No 60 Group, as RAF Tan-y-Bwlch parented by RAF Aberwstwyth but was renamed on 18 December 1940.

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Type: - Type 1 ('Advance' CH) Station (59)

Opened - late 1940, parented by RAF Aldergrove

No 60 Group (xx xxx 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 77 Wing (17 Feb - 27 Dec 1941)

Upgraded to CH - by Jul 1941

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) (7 Mar 1945 - 31 May 1946)

Reduced to Inactive status - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Engineering Unit (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 858 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951.

Location

County: - County Londonderry

Lat/Long: 

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Remarks: -

No 858 Signals Unit

This was formed on 1 November 1951 by redesignating the CH Station at Castle Rock under the control of No 90 Group.  By September 1954 it had been transferred to Caledonian Sector, No 12 Group, Fighter Command and possibly disbanded in December 1955.

It disbanded on 1 January 1956, the station being placed on C & M.  The C & M party was disbanded on 1 October 1956 and the station was reduced to inactive status, parented by RAF Ballykelly, until 1 July 1958 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 53 Station (CD No 1 Mk VI )

Opened - by the end of 1942

No 76 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded on 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 31 Station (CD No 1 Mk V)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 76 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1945)

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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No 136 Signals Unit (Chenies)

Formed - 8 May 1953 at Chenies in

No 90 (Signals) Group (8 May 1953 - 1 May 1956)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Opened -

No 90 (Signals) Group (8 May 1953 - 15 Apr 1954)

No 11 Group (15 Apr 1954 - 7 Jan 1960)

Reduced to sub-site of RAF Bovingdon - 1 May 1956,

Bomber Command (7 Jan 1960 - xx xxx xxxx)

Notes.

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Type: - Unknown

Opened - xx Dec 1940, parented by RAF Filton

No 60 Group (xx Dec 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 76 Wing (17 Feb - xx xxx 1941)

Probably closed - between Jul and Dec 1941

Location

County: - Somerset

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 31 AMES (CD No 1 Mk V)

Transferred from the War Office as RAF Marsdon- 3 Apr 1942

No 75 Wing (3 Apr 1942 - 26 Aug 1944

Renamed RAF Whitburn by Jun 1942

Renamed RAF Cleadon - about Aug 1942

Closed - 26 Aug 1944

Type: - Type 9000 Station (9123 & 9124)

Opened - xx Jul 1943

Disbanded - 23 Dec 1944

Type: - Type 9000 Mk III Station (9133, 9232 & 9323)

Opened - xx Jul 1943

Became self accounting - 15 Feb 1944

No 9232 Care and Maintenance - 28 Dec 1944

No 9232 closed - xx Sep 1945

Nos 9313 (Cleadon III) & 9323 (Cleadon IV) disbanded - 1 June 1946

Location

County: - County Durham

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This had originally commissioned as an Inter Service CD/CHL station known as Marsdon, under War Office control, and was transferred to the Air Ministry on 3 Apr 1942

By the end of 1942 it was a  station under the control of No 73 Wing, and was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching

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Type: - Type 7000 GEE Slave station (7124)

Opened - between Jul 1941 and Jul 1942

No 76 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 77 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

No 90 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 20 Jan 1958)

Redesignated No 92 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

No 92 SU disbanded - 20 Jan 1958

Location

County: - Shropshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

No 92 Signals Unit

This was formed on 1 November 1951 by redesignating the GEE Slave Station at Clee Hill under the control of the Radio Navigation Aids Wing, No 90 Group.

Site reduced to inactive status on 20 January 1958, parented by RAF Bridgnorth, until 20 October 1958 following disposal of Air Ministry assets.

No 22 Group (20 Jan - 20 Oct 1958)

Type: - Type 711 (LORAN) Station

Opened - 1 January 1944

No 60 Group (1 Jan 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (31 Jan 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station

Formation commenced - late 1941

Opened - by Jul 1942

No 71 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Inverness

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in No 90 Group, parented by No 1 GRSS, Grangemouth.

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Type: - Type 2 & 50 CHL station (42A)

Opened - 26 Jan 1940, parented by RAF Drem

HQ Fighter Command (26 Jan 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 72 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 15 May 1944)

No 70 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station to Fighter Command - 21 Sep 1950

Fighter Command (21 Sep 1950 - 23 Jun 1952)

Derequisitioned - 23 Jun 1952

Location

County: - Berwickshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (47B)

Formation commenced - xx Dec 1940, parented by RAF Dyce

No 60 Group (xx Dec 1940 - xx xxx 1941)

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 71 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned -31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station to Fighter Command. - 21 Sep 1950

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching as well as being a part-time GCI station.

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No 891 Signals Unit

Formed - 9 August 1952

No 90 (Signals) Group (9 Aug 1952 -

No 12 Group (25 Feb - 15 Oct 1953), parented by RAF Thornaby

No 12 Group (15 Oct 1953 - 15 Jul 1955), parented by No 59 SU at Seaton Snook

No 13 Group (15 Jul 1955 - 1 Jan 1961)

Disbanded - 1 Oct 1958

C & M Party (1 Oct 1958 - 1 May 1959)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 May 1959, parented by RAF Middleton St George.

No 11 Group (1 Jan 1961 - 1 Apr 1963)

HQ, Fighter Command (1 Apr 1963 - 23 Mar 1964

Parenting transferred to RAF Ouston on 23 March 1964

No 23 Group (23 Mar 1964 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - County Durham

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - GCI station

Opened - xx xxx 1942, allocated to the Eglinton Sector, parented by RAF Eglinton

No 79 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 72 Wing (Ballyhalbert Sector) (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Care and Maintenance - By 1 Jul 1943

Closed -xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

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Main Units: -

No 999 Signals Unit (Colliers Law) (1 Mar 1958 - 12 Sep 1961)

Location

County: - County Durham

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Opened -

Reduced to inactive status on 12 September 1961, parented by RAF Ouston, until 8 July 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets.

No 11 Group (12 Sep - 25 1961)

No 23 Group (25 Sep 1961 - 8 Jul 1964)

Notes.

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Type: - Type 7 GCI Final station (11G)

Opened -  8 May 1943, parented by RAF Defford

Transferred to the Honiley Sector - by Jul 1943

No 77 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) - 18 Aug 1944

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Jul 1949)

Re-opened - xx xxx xxxx

Transferred to Fighter Command - 1 Jul 1949

No 12 Group (1 Jul 1949 - 1 Nov 1951), parented by RAF Pershore (No 62 Group)

Redesignated No 909 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

No 909 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

No 11 Group (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx 1956)

Disbanded - 15 Feb 1956

C & M Party (15 Feb 1956 - 1 Feb 1957)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 February 1957, parented by RAF Honiley

No 12 Group (1 Feb 1957 - 28 Feb 1958). 

Parenting was transferred to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford on 28 February 1958

No 41 Group (28 Feb 1958 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Cambridgeshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Type: - Type 8 Transportable GCI station

Opened - xx Mar 1941

Taken onto the establishment of the Baginton Sector - 14 Apr 1941

Transferred to the Honiley Sector - By Feb 1942, parented by RAF Pershore

No 76 Wing - (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx 1942)

No 77 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - 8 May 1943)

Converted to Type 7 Final GCI Station - 8 May 1943

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station

Transferred from the War Office - 10 May 1942

No 71 Wing (10 May 1942 - 1 Jul 143)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 31 May 1946)

Disbanded on 31 May 1946.

Type: - Type 31 (CD No 1 Mk V) Station

Transferred from the War Office - 10 May 1942

No 71 Wing (10 May 1942 - 1 Jul 143)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Jan 1944)

Closed -1 Jan 1944

Location

County: - Banff

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Originally commissioned as an Inter Service CD/CHL station under War Office control.

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 31 Station (CD No 1 Mk IV/V)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

73 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Probably closed - between Jun 1944 and Jan 1945.

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (63A)

Opened - xx Jul 1940, parented by RAF Jurby

No 60 Group (xx Jul 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 77 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care and Maintenance (7 Mar 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

 Type: - Type 31 Station (CD No 1, Mk. V)

Opened - xx xxx 1942/43

No 77 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Upgraded to Type 52* - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 52 Station (CD No 1, Mk. VI)

Upgraded from Type 31* - xx xxx xxxx

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - xx xxx xxxx)

Abandoned - 1 Nov 1945

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Isle of Man

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching, it had also been allocated 10cm Mk IV/V equipment and had been allocated high power transmitters.

*The date of this upgrade is unknown at present.

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (40A)

Construction work commenced - xx Jan 1940

HQ Fighter Command (xx Jan - 23 Feb 1940)

Opened - (xx Feb 1940

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Usworth

No 73 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

Type: - Type 56 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Opened - xx xxx 1942/43

No 73 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1946

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

Location

County: - Northumberland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This station was part of the second 'crash' programme.

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching, operating 10cm Mk V equipment

On 25 September 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to RAF Acklington, Fighter Command, until 1 January 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 13 Group (25 Sep 1950 - 1 Jan 1961)

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Type: - Type 8 CGI station (31G)

Opened - by the end of Oct 1941, allocated to the Colerne Sector

No 76 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred to the Middle Wallop Sector - by Feb 1942, parented by RAF South Cerney.

Transferred to the Colerne Sector - by Jul 1943

No 78 Wing (by 1 Jul 1943 -1 Dec 1944)

Site transferred to Transport Command - 1 Dec 1944

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Replaced the station at Avebury

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (48A)

Opened - xx Jul 1940, parented by RAF Evanton

No 70 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - xx xxx 1944)

Care and Maintenance on  1 Mar 1944

Probably closed - between May and Jun 1944

Location

County: - Ross and Cromarty

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 9 Transportable Radar Unit

Opened - by Jul 1942

No 79 Wing (by Jul 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Jul 1945)

Care & Maintenance (Stage III) - by Mar 1945

Closed - 1 Jul 1945

Location

County: - County Armagh, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (72)

Construction commenced - Dec 1940, parented by RAF Kirkwall

No 60 Group (xx Dec 1940 - xx xxx 1941)

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 70 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946.

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

Location

County: - Orkney

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

On 25 September 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command, which was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 1 (CH) station (79)

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - by Jun 1944

Abandoned on 1 Jun 1946.

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Isle of Man

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Flying Training Command, parented by RAF Jurby, until 31 January 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 1 (CH) station

HQ Fighter Command (xx xxx 1939 - 23 Feb 1940)

Opened - xx xxx 1940

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941, parented by RAF Thornaby

No 73 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

During 1942/43 it was commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 18 Sep 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station to the Radio Engineering Unit - 18 Sep 1950

Care and Maintenance ('Rotor' site) - 12 Dec 1950 and was

No 12 Group (9 Jul - 1 Nov 1951), parented by RAF Leeming.

No 573 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This was used as one of the first sixteen sites selected for the Main Chain begun in 1937 as Station 38

Authority for the construction of a Final CH Station operating on 22.69Mc/s was given in March 1939. 

No 573 Signals Unit

Formed on 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx), parented by RAF Leeming

Parenting changed to RAF Thornaby - 15 Nov 1951

No 13 Group (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx 1956)

Disbanded - 1 Jul 1956.

C & M party (1 Jul 1956 - 1 Apr 1958)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 April 1958, parented by No 39 SU (Goldsborough), until 1 January 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 7000 GEE Master station (7111)

Opened - 20 Jan 1946

No 73 Wing (20 Jan - Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 699 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951

No 699 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (1 Nov 1951 - 6 Jan 1958)

Disbanded - 6 Jan 1958

Site reduced to inactive status on 6 January 1958, parented by No 232 OCU, RAF Gaydon, until 16 April 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets (except microwave site occupied by USAF).

No 3 Group (6 Jan 1958 - 16 Apr 1964)

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (50A)

Opened - xx Aug 1940

No 60 Group (xx Aug 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by No 950 Squadron, Lyness

Parenting responsibilities transferred to RAF Kirkwall - 10 Oct 1940

No 70 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group - 25 Sep 1950

Type: - Type 13 (CMH) Station

Opened - xx xxx 1942/43

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 51 Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 70 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group - 25 Sep 1950

Parenting transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Location

County: - Orkney

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This station was formed by renaming RAF Gaitnip.

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 54 CD/CHL Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946.

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Technical Training Command, parented by the Aircrew Selection Centre, RAF Hornchurch.

FTC (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jul 1960)

Parenting was transferred to RAF Martlesham Heath on 1 July 1960.

No 11 Group (1 Jul 1960 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Type: - Type 54 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 73 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Returned to operational status - 1 Jun 1949

Type: - Type 13 (CMH) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 73 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Care and Maintenance (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - GCI station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Became a lodger unit - 5 Feb 1945

Disbanded - 1 Aug 1945

Type: - Type 41 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk V)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - 1 Nov 1945.

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Renamed RAF Easington - 1 May 1950

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Type: - Type 7 GCI Staion (16G)

Opened - late 1941/early 1942, allocated to the Drem Sector

No 72 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 15 May 1944)

Transferred to the Turnhouse Sector - by Feb 1942, parented by RAF Drem

No 70 Wing (15 May 1944 - 20 May 1946)

No 90 Group (20 May - 1 Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Feb 1950)

Reserve Command (1 Feb - 15 Jun 1950)

No 12 Group (15 Jun 1950 - xx xxx xxxx)

Redesignated No 980 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951

Type: - Type 21 (10 cm for GCI use)

Opened - late 1941/early 1942

No 72 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 15 May 1944)

Transferred to the Turnhouse Sector - by Feb 1942, parented by RAF Drem

No 70 Wing (15 May 1944 - 20 May 1946)

No 70 Wing (15 May 1944 - 20 May 1946)

No 90 Group (20 May - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Location

County: - East Lothian

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Renamed RAF Macmerry on 1 September 1951

No 980 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - xx Jul 1954)

Disbanded - 1 Aug 1954

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Type: - GCI station

Opened - between May and Jul 1942 allocated to the Kenley Sector, parented by RAF Kenley

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Probably closed - between Jun 1944 and Jan 1945

Location

County: - Kent?

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

By October 1942 it was a reserve station for RAF Willesborough and by Jan 1943 it was being held in reserve in case other stations became unserviceable due to enemy action.

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Type: - Unknown

Opened - An opening date for this station has not found but by the end of 1942 it was engaged on surface watching only.

Closed -xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Lincolnshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (46A)

HQ Fighter Command (xx Jan - 23 Feb 1940)

Opened - xx Feb 1940

No 60 Group, parented by RAF Dyce (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941)

No 71 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 31 May 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - xx Oct 1945

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to No 66 Group - 25 Sep 1950

Parenting was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Type: - Type 31 (CD No l Mk. V)

Opened - xx xxx 1942

No 71 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 26 Aug 1944)

Closed - 26 Aug 1944

Location

County: - Aberdeenshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Work on this station began in January 1940 as part of the second 'crash' programme.

It was commissioned during 1942 as a duplicate CHL station. 

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 1 (Final CH) Station (45)

Authority for the construction issued - xx Mar 1939

HQ Fighter Command (xx Mar 1939 - xx xxx xxxx

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Montrose

No 71 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

Commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve - 1942/43

No 72 Wing on 1 Jul 1943

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 28 Sep 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station to the Radio Engineering Unit - 28 Sep 1950

Care and Maintenance as a 'Rotor' site - 12 Dec 1950

No 12 Group (3 Sep - 1 Nov 1951), parented by RAF Leuchars.

The CH station was redesignated No 51 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Type: -  Type 55 (CD No 1 Mk VI**)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 60 Group  (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Montrose

No 71 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

Commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve - 1942/43

No 72 Wing on 1 Jul 1943

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Angus

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

No 51 Signals Unit

Formed on 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 15 Jul 1955)

No 13 Group (15 Jul 1955 - 1 Jan 1961)

Disbanded - xx xxx 1956

C & M party (xx xxx 1956 - 15 Jan 1957). 

Station reduced to inactive status on 15 January 1957, parented by No 351 SU (Anstruther), RAF Anstruther.

Parenting was transferred to RAF Leuchars on xx xxx 1958, until 22 March 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 11 Group (1 Jan - 22 Mar 1961)

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Type: - 'J' Watch Outstation (a Section of AMES Swingate)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 80 Wing, No 100 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 15May 1944)

No 75 Wing (15 May 1944

Closed - 1 Jan 1945

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 1 ('Advance' CH) Station (15)

Opened - late 1940

No 60 Group, parented by RAF Mount Batten

No 78 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 31 Jul 1946)

Upgraded to Type 1 (Final CH) - 1942/43

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 57 (CHEL) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 31 Jun 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - by Oct 1945

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Mount Batten.

Parenting was transferred to HQ (Unit), No 19 Group, RAF Mount Batten on 17 October, until 17 March 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 31 Station (CD No 1 Mk V)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 77 Wing (17 Feb - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 31 May 1946)

Upgraded to Type 52 - 1 Nov 1945?

Type: - Type 52 Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Opened - 1 Nov 1945?

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 31 May 1946)

Disbanded - 31 May 1946.

Type: - Type 7000 Mobile Chain No 7400 (North Western Chain) - No 7421 Slave Station

Opened - 1 Dec 1944

No 60 Group (1 Dec 1944 - 6 Oct 1945)

Became operational - about March 1945

Disbanded - 6 Oct 1945

Location

County: - County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945 – Frontline Ulster

Type: - Type 2 (CHL ) Station (59A)

Formation commenced - late 1940

No 60 Group (late 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Aldergrove

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (17 Feb - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 31 May 1946)

Disbanded - 31 May 1946.

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Type: - Type 1 (Mobile CH) Station (42)

Construction commenced - xx Mar 1939

RAF Turnhouse (xx Mar 1939 - 27 May 1939)

No 13 FTS, Drem (27 May - xx xxx 1939)

Masts transferred to Netherbutton - xx May 1939s

Type: - Type 1 (Final CH) Station (42)

Opened - by Jan 1941

No 72 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 15 May 1944)

Commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve - 1942/43

No 70 Wing (15 May 1944 - Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) (xx Oct 1945 - 31 May 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 28 Sep 1950)

Radio Engineering Unit (28 Sep 1950 - 9 Jul 1951)

Care and Maintenance as a 'Rotor' site (12 Dec 1950 - 9 Jul 1951)

No 12 Group ( 9 Jul - 1 Nov1951), parented by RAF Macmerry.

Redesignated No 633 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

Location

County: - Berwickshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Chosen as a possible Main Chain site it was selected in 1938 for a mobile CH installation in order to provide RDF coverage of the Forth-Clyde area.  Authority for the construction of a Final CH (Type 1) station operating on 50.5Mc/s was given in March 1939.

However, its temporary masts were dismantled in April/May 1939 and moved to Rosyth, for transfer to Netherbutton to cover Scapa Flow.

No 633 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - xx Apr 1955)

No 13 Group (xx Apr 1955 - 1 Jan 1961)

Disbanded - 1 Jul 1956

C & M party (1 Jul - 1 Oct 1956)

Reduced to inactive status, parented by No 617 SU (Crosslaw)

Parenting transferred to RAF Boulmer on 1 Oct 1958, until 1 September 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 11 Group (1 Jan - 1 Sep 1961)

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Type: - Type 1 (CH) tation

Opened as RAF Goonhilly Down - 1 Jun 1940

No 60 Group (1 Jun 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF St Eval

Rename RAF Dry Tree - 19 Jun 1940

No 78 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) (xx Oct 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

Abandoned on 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (Inactive) (1 Nov 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (Inactive) (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Care and Maintenance as a 'Rotor' site (12 Dec 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 185 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Officers Commanding: -

24 Oct 1940         Plt Off A K Webb

No 185 Signals Unit

Formed (C & M) - 1 Nov 1951

No 90 Group.  (1 Nov 1951 - 11 Jun 1952)

No 11 Group (11 Jun 1952 -

Disbanded - Apr 1955

Site becoming a satellite of No 644 SU (Treleaver), until 19 January 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 31, 32, 33 or 34 (CD/CHL) Station (CD No 1 Mk IV/V )

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 23 Jul 1944)

Closed - 23 Jul 1944

Type: - Type 16 Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) (by Mar 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Cornwall

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on surface watching only and had been allocated equipment.

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Type: - Type 1

Opened - xx xxx 1939

HQ Fighter Command (xx xxx 1939 - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Manston

No 75 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 749 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type 55 Station (CD No 1 Mk VI**)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Control & Reporting Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 90 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 25 Aug 1950)

Care and Maintenance (25 Aug 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Fighter Command (25 Aug 1950 - 1 Nov 1951), parented by RAF West Malling via Swingate.

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This was one of the first five sites chosen in 1936 for the Intermediate Chain as a transmitting station with a single tower.  It was retained as one of sixteen sites Main Chain begun in 1937 as Station 02.

Authority for the construction of a Final CH station operating on 22.69Mc/s was given in March 1939

By January 1941 it was operating an Emergency Alternative MRU at Cutballs (02M)

No 749 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 1 Jan 1956)

Disbanded - 1 Jan 1956

C & M Party (1 Jan 1956 - 15 May 1957)

No 11 Group (1 Jan 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to inactive status on 15 May 1957, parented by No 491 SU, RAF Sandwich.

Parenting transferred to RAF Manston on 1 December 1959, until 1 May 1962 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - CHL (Type 2) station as station 49B

Operated by Royal Navy - xx xxx xxxx

70 Wing (xx xx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Manning assumed by RAF - about Jan 1944

Abandoned - by 1 Nov 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 30 (CD No 1 Mk III )

Operated by Royal Navy - xx xxx xxxx

70 Wing (xx xx xxxx - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Manning assumed by RAF - about Jan 1944

Abandoned -  31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 57 CHEL Station

Opened - 1 Jul 1944

Still operational carrying out technical training, in Oct 1945

Closed - by 1 Nov 1946

Location

County: - Caithness

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching, manned by the Navy.

On 25 September 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command.

Parenting was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Mobile GCI Station (34G)

Construction commenced - early 1942, parented by RAF West Freugh

Parenting transferred to RAF Castle Kennedy - by May 1942

Opened - by Jul 1942, allocated to the Ayr Sector

No 72 Wing (xx Jul 1942 - 15 May 1944)

Care & Maintenance (by Jan 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 70 Wing (15 May - 1 Jul 1944)

Closed - 1 Jul 1944

Location

County: - Wigtownshire (now Dumfries and Galloway)

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station (28A)

Opened - 1 Jan 1940

HQ Fighter Command (1 Jan - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Honington

Parenting transferred to RAF Martlesham Heath - 22 Jun 1940

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing on 1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) (xx Oct 1945 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946.

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

During 1942/43 it was commissioned as a Tower station.  At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching.

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Maintenance Command, parented by RAF Honington, which ceased on 27 May  1954.

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Type: - Mobile GCI station (01G)

Commenced formation - late 1940

No 60 Group (xx xxx 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Tangmere

No 75 Wing (17 Feb - 14 Apr 1941)

Ceased to be a separate unit absorbed into the Tangmere Sector - 14 Apr 1941

Parenting transferred to RAF Ford - by Feb 1942

Parenting transferred to RAF Tangmere - May 1942

Parenting transferred to RAF Ford - by Oct 1942

Converted to Final GCI Station - by Jan 1943

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reduced to intermediate/final status - 5 Feb 1945

HQ Fighter Command (xx xxx xxxx - 3 Dec 1945)

No 78 Wing (3 Dec 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Location

County: - Wiltshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Intermediate CH station (73)

Construction commenced as RAF Newchurch - xx Dec 1940

No 60 Group (xx Dec 1940 - xx xxx 1941), parented by RAF Hawkinge

Opened - between Jul 1941 and Jul 1942

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jun 1946)

Rename - between Jun 1943 and Jan 1944

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

The name was changed (between Jun 1943 and Jan 1944) to avoid confusion with the nearby airfield of the same name. 

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Fighter Command, parented by RAF West Malling, which ended on 27 November 1953 following its derequisitioning.

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Type: - Proposed Type 2 Station

By Jan 1941 this was proposed as a CHL station as station 80A, but no other details have so far been found.

Location

County: - Argyll

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (35A)

Opened - 19 Dec 1939

HQ Fighter Command

No 60 Group on 23 Feb 1940, parented by RAF Catfoss

No 73 Wing (17 Feb 1941

Closed - 3 Aug 1944

Type: - Type 41 (CHEL) Station

Re-opened from RAF Dimlington - 1 May 1950

Redesignated No 545 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching as well as being a part-time GCI station

It was reformed in No 12 Group on 1 May 1950 by renaming the CHEL station at Dimlington.

No 545 Signals Unit

Formed on 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 20Mar 1954)

Reduced to inactive (surplus) status on 20 March 1954, parented by RAF Leconfield.

No 21 Group (20 Mar - 20 Apr 1954)

No 12 Group (20 Apr 1954 - 21 Feb 1959)

Disbanded - 9 May 1954

Parenting was transferred to RAF Patrington on 20 April 1954, until 21 February 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - CD/CHL Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Declared redundant - by the end of 1942

Closed - 18 Feb 1944

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 8? GCI station

Opened - between Feb and Jul 1942, allocated to the Northolt Sector, parented by RAF Halton.

No 74 Wing (xx xxx 1942 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 25 Feb 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - by Oct 1945

No 78 Wing (25 Feb - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 21 Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Transferred on temporary loan to the Meteorological Office - 1 Oct 1946

Location

County: - Hertfordshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

It replaced RAF Boarscroft,

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station (85A)

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 70 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 31 Station (CD No 1 Mk IV/V)

Opened -

Closed - 11 Jan 1945

Retained for Flying Control purposes only - by Oct 1945

Location

County: - Isle of Lewis

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

On 25 Sep 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command.

Parenting was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: -

Formation commenced - late 1940

No 60 Group (xx xxx 1940 - xx xxx 1941), parented by RAF Wittering

Resited to Martlesham and was renamed RAF Waldringfield - by Jan 1941

Location

County: - Northamptonshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Mobile GCI station (03G)

Formation commenced - Mar 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 78 Wing (xx xxx - 14 Apr 1941)

Absorbed onto the establishment of the Exeter Sector, parented by RAF Exeter - 14 Apr 1941

Upgraded to Type 7 GCI Final station - by the end of Jan 1943

No 60 Group on Care & Maintenance (Stage I) - 1 Feb 1945

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

No 90 Group (24 Apr 1946 - 1 Feb 1950)

Reserve Command (1 Feb 1950 - 1 Feb 1951)

Southern Sector, No 11 Group (1 Feb - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 690 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

Type: - Type 21

Formation commenced - Mar 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 78 Wing (xx xxx - 14 Apr 1941)

Absorbed onto the establishment of the Exeter Sector, parented by RAF Exeter - 14 Apr 1941

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Reduced to inactive status on 15 December 1958, parented by RAF Hope Cove in No 11 Group, until 12 November 1958, when it was transferred to HQ No 19 Group.

No 690 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov1951

No 11 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 1 Apr 1959)

Reduced to 'number-plate' basis - 15 Dec 1954

C & M Party (15 Dec 1954 - 1 Apr 1955)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 April 1955, parented by No 926 SU, RAF Hope Cove, until 1 April 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (Fair Isle II)

Operated by the Royal Navy - by Jan 1941

No 70 Wing (xx xxx xxx - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 50 (CHEL) Station (Fair Isle III)

Operated by the Royal Navy - by Jan 1941

Transferred from the Admiralty - 10 Dec 1945

No 70 Wing (10 Dec 1945 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 both dual-role stations engaged on air reporting and surface watching, manned by the Navy, both also having been allocated CD No 1 Mk III equipment.

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (Fair Isle I)

Operated by the Royal Navy - by Jan 1941

Transferred to RAF control - late 1943/early 1944

No 70 Wing (xx xxx xxx - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded (equipment removed) - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Type: - Experimental Interception Control Unit (lodger unit on the Type 2 site)

Opened - 26 Oct 1944

No further details at present

Type: - Type 14 station (also on the Type 2 site)

Opened - 26 Oct 1944

No further details at present

Type: - Type 26 (MEW) station (also on the Type 2 site)

Opened - 26 Oct 1944

Transferred to Greyfriars - 31 Oct 1944

Type: - Type 24 (CMH) Station

Opened - 26 Oct 1944

HQ Fighter Command (26 Oct - 24 Nov 1944)

No 60 Group (24 Nov 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - American

Opened - 26 Oct 1944

No further details at present

Type: - Type 52 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Possibly upgraded from Type 31 - 1 Nov 1945

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Returned to operational status  as - 1 Jun 1949

Southern Signals Area (1 Jun 1949 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 229 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

Type: - Type 53 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk VI)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Care & Maintenance (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

No further details at present

Type: - Type 14 Mk 7 (CHEL ‘A’) (ROTOR)

Opened - 30 Aug 1952

Care & Maintenance - by 1956

Closed - 1960s

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting, was available as a stand-by surface watching station

Officers Commanding: -

12 Aug 1940          Plt Off W F Lloyd

No 229 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

11 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 1 Apr 1963)

Disbanded - 1 Oct 1958.

C & M Party (1 Oct 1958 - 1 Feb 1959)

Reduced to inactive status on 1 February 1959, parented by RAF Wartling, until 7 April 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets.

No 12 (East Anglian) Sector (1 Apr 1963 - 7 Apr 1964)

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (05A)

Opened - about Jun 1940

No 60 Group, parented by RAF Hawkinge.

No 75 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 26 Oct 1944)

Closed - 26 Oct 1944

Returned to operational status on 1 Jun 1949

Southern Signals Area (1 Jun 1949 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 229 Signals Unit - 1 Nov 1951

Type: - Type 11 Mk 1 (Mobile CHL) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No further details at present

Type: - Type 13 (CMH) Station (CMH Mk IV)

Opened - 1942/43

Upgraded to CMH No 1 Mk V

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 31 (CD No 1 Mk V) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Type: - Type 13 Mk II (CMH Mk II)

Commenced forming - 20 Jul 1944

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

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Main Units: -

No 32 Signal Unit (31 Dec 1954 - 1 May 1957)

C & M party (1 May 1957 - 1 Aug 1958)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Control: -

Opened (C & M) - 31 Dec 1954

No 12 Group (31 Dec 1954 - 15 Jul 1955)

No 13 Group (15 Jul 1955 - 1 Aug 1958)

Reduced to Inactive status on 1 August 1958, parented by RAF RAF Kinloss, until 19 May 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets.

No 18 Group (1 Aug 1958 - 19 May 1964)

Notes.

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Type: - Unknown

Opened - between Jul 1943 and Jan 1944

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed -xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 1 (CH) Station

Formation commenced - xx Apr 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 76 Wing

No 78 Wing (1 Jul 1943

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) (1 Jun 1944 - 31 Jul 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

No 90 Group (31 Jul - 1 Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Southern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Care and Maintenance as a 'Rotor' site - 12 Dec 1950

Redesignated No 508 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type 7000 (GEE) Station (7523)

Opened - xx Jan 1945

No 60 Group (xx Jan 1945 - 24 Apr 1946)

No 90 Group (24 Apr - 1 Nov 1946)

Reduced to Inactive status - xx xxx xxxx

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 561 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951

Location

County: - Pembrokeshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

No 508 Signals Unit

Formed on 1 Nov 1951

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 11 Group (xx xxx xxxx - 13 Nov 1956)

Disbanded - 15 Jul 1956

C & M Party (15 Jul - 13 Nov 1956)

No 90 Group (13 Nov 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 561 Signals Unit

Formed on 1 Nov 1951

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx 1956)

Disbanded - 1 May 1958.

Reduced to inactive status on 1 May 1958, parented by RAF Pembroke Dock.

Parenting was transferred to RAF Aberporth in No 12 Group on 1 January 1959, until 20 July 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 13 Mk II station (Type 271(10cm Mk IV/V))

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type ? GCI Station

Opened - 8 Feb 1943, Biggin Hill sector

HQ, Fighter Command (8 Feb - 1 Jul 1943), parented by RAF Manston.

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Type: - Type 54 Mk 2 Station

Opened - 1950s

Disbanded - xx xxx xxxx

No 993 Signals Unit

Formed - 14 Mar 1952

No 90 Group (14 Mar 1952 - 20 Dec 1955)

No 11 Group (20 Dec 1955 - xx xxx xxxx)

Disbanded - 1 Oct 1958

Following disbandment of No 993 SU, the station was placed on C & M, until 29 December 1958

Reduced to inactive status on 29 December 1958, parented by RAF Sandwich.

Parenting transferred to RAF Manston on 1 December 1959.

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

On 15 Aug 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to RAF Sandwich, Fighter Command.

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station (03A)

Opened - 7 Dec 1939

HQ Fighter Command (7 Dec 1939 - 23 Feb 1941)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Manston

Held in reserve - by Jan 1941

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station (03B)

Opened -

HQ Fighter Command (7 Dec 1939 - 23 Feb 1941)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Manston

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (64A)

Construction commenced - xx Nov 1940

No 60 Group (xx Nov 1940 - xx xxx 1941), parented by RAF Speke

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - xx Mar 1944)

Transferred to the Admiralty, without the technical equipment - xx Mar 1944

Location

County: - Lancashire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Mobile GCI Station (AA)

Opened - 1942/43

No further details so far

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 8? Mobile GCI station (30G)

Opened - late 1941/early 1942, allocated to the Hornchurch Sector

No 74 Wing (xx xxx xxxx -

No 76 Wing (by Feb 1942 - xx xxx xxxx), parented by RAF Southend

Transferred to the North Weald Sector - by May 1942

Upgraded to Intermediate Mobile station - by Jan 1943

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Jul 1944)

Closed - 1 Jul 1944

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 8? Mobile GCI Station (15G)

Opened (St Quivox) - Apr 1941, allocated to the Ayr Sector, parented by RAF Ayr

No 72 Wing (xx Apr - xx xxx 1941)

Upgraded and renamed Fullerton - between Dec 1941 and Jun 1942

Type: - Type 8? Intermediate Mobile GCI Station (15G)

Renamed from St Quivox - between Dec 1941 and Jun 1942

No 72 Wing (xx xxx 1941/42 - 15 May 1944)

Transferred to the Turnhouse Sector - by 1 Jul 1943

70 Wing  (15 May 1944 - 31 Jan 1946)

No 60 Group (31 Jan - 22 Feb 1946)

Disbanded - 22 Feb 1946.

Care and Maintenance (22 Feb 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

No 90 Group as an Inactive Station (24 Apr 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Transferred to Fighter Command as RAF Gailes (for the ROTOR programme) - 21 Sep 1950

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - 3 x Type 13 Mk VII

Projected use - xx xxx 1951

No 12 Group (22 Feb - xx Sep 1956)

Closed - xx Sep 1956

Type: - Type 14 Mk VIII

Projected use - xx xxx 1951

Deleted - 27 Feb 1952

Type: - Type 14 Mk IX

Projected use - xx xxx 1951

Deleted - 27 Feb 1952

Type: - Type 80

Opened - 22 Feb 1956

No 12 Group (22 Feb - xx Sep 1956)

Closed - xx Sep 1956

Type: - AN/FPS3 

Opened - xx Apr 1953

No 12 Group (Apr 1953 - xx Sep 1956)

Closed - xx Sep 1956

Type: - Passive Detection System

Opened - xx Nov 1968

Closed -

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

RAF Gailes opened as No 167 Signals Unit on 19 July 1953 with the camp ready for occupation by 1 December 1953 as part of the ROTOR programme.

There was no purpose built camp or married quarters at Gailes, instead the station shared facilities at the Dundonald Army Camp.

The types of equipment used or planned for use are shown below and opposite.

The station was not required for the revised 1958 plan and the site, including the Type 7 and Type 14 radars were taken over by the CAA and remaining in use until 1977.

Type: - Type 7 Mk II

Projected use - xx xxx 1951

Deleted - 27 Feb 1952

Type: - Type 11 Mobile Mk VII

Projected use - xx xxx 1951

Deleted - 27 Jan 1953

Type: - 2 x Type 13 Mk VI

Projected use - xx xxx 1951

No 12 Group (22 Feb - xx Sep 1956)

Closed - xx Sep 1956

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Type: - Type

Opened - by Jul 1940

No 60 Group (xx Jul - Aug 1940)

Renamed RAF Deerness - xx Aug 1940

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 7000 Slave Station (7123 & 7723 of the Eastern Gee Chain)

Opened - between Jul 1941 and Jul 1942

No 75 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 24 Apr 1946)

No 90 Group (24 Apr 1946 - 21 Sep 1950)

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (21 Sep 1950 - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 796 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

The Master Station was Daventry and the other two slave station were at Clee Hill and Stenigot, with a Controller at RAF Barkway.

No 796 Signals Unit

Formed on 1 Nov 1951

Radio Navigation Aids Wing (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx 1958)

Disbanded - 20 Jan 1958.

Reduced to inactive status on 30 January 1958, parented by RAF Odiham, until 1 January 1960 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

No 11 Group (30 Jan 1958 - 1 Jan 1960)

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (60A)

Opened - xx Jul 1940

No 60 Group (xx Jul 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Aldergrove

No 77 Wing (17 Feb - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) (xx xxx 1944 - 31 May 1946)

Disbanded - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

On 25 Sep 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 67 Group, Home Command, until 27 November 1952.

Type: - Type 31  (CHEL) Station

Opened - xx Jul 1940

No 60 Group (xx Jul 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Aldergrove

No 77 Wing (17 Feb - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1945)

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Location

County: - County Antrim

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref: D333133

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 13 (CMH) Station

Opened - by Mar 1945

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 57

Opened - by Mar 1945

Abandoned - xx xxx xxxx

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type ? GCI station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Became a lodger unit - 5 Feb 1945 and was

Disbanded - 1 Aug 1945

No 39 Signals Unit (Goldsborough)

Formed - 15 Jun 1952

Disbanded - 15 Jul 1958, 

C & M Party (15 Jul 1958 - 20 Aug 1960)

Reduced to inactive status on 20 August 1960, parented by RAF Middleton St George.

No 11 Group (20 Aug 1960 - 1 Apr 1963)

HQ, Fighter Command (1 Apr 1963 - xx xxx xxxx)

Parenting transferred to RAF Fylingdales on 23 March 1964, until 5 June 1964 following disposal of all MOD (RAF) assets (except married quarters).

Location

County: - North Yorkshire

Lat/Long:  54:30:48N  00:43:13W

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching as well as being a part-time GCI station. 

On 21 Sep 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station from No 90 Group to Fighter Command.

Type: - Inter Service CD/CHL station/Type 2 (CHL) Station

War Office (xx xxx xxxx - 4 Mar 1942

Transferred to the Air Ministry - 4 Mar 1942

No 73 Wing (4 Mar 1942 - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded on 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Inter Service CD/CHL station/Type 52 (CHEL) Station

War Office (xx xxx xxxx - 4 Mar 1942

Transferred to the Air Ministry - 4 Mar 1942

No 73 Wing (4 Mar 1942 - 1 Nov 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Re-activated as part of the ROTOR programme - xx xxx 1952/53

Northern Sector (xx xxx 1953 - xx xxx 1957)

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Type: - Type 100 (G-H) Station (No 113 AMES)

Opened - 19 Feb 1943

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 1 Jun 1946)

Ceased operations - 30 Nov 1944

Care & Maintenance (2 Jan 1945 - 6 Jul 1945)

Disbanded - 6 Jul 1945

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Located near RAF Fairlight but renamed to avoid confusion with CHL station.

Officers Commanding: -

11 May 1944     ? P Harrild 

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Type: - Type 55 (CD No 1 Mk VI**) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

Commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve - 1942/43

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Care and Maintenance (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 -

Type: - Type BR

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Care and Maintenance (xx xxx xxxx - xx xxx xxxx)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 -

Type: - Type 7000 (GEE Master) Station

Opened - xx Mar 1942

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care and Maintenance (xx Nov 1945 - xx xxx xxxx)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Essex

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

This was one of the first five sites chosen in 1936 for the Intermediate Chain as a transmitting station with a single tower.  It was retained as one of sixteen sites Main Chain begun in 1937 as Station 24.

By Jan 1941 it was proposed to have an Emergency Alternative MRU to be located at Frating (24M). 

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Fighter Command, parented by RAF Felixstowe.

Parenting was transferred to RAF Wattisham in No 12 Group on 10 August 1962.

Type: - Type 1 (CH) Station (24)

Opened - xx Jul 1938

HQ Fighter Command (xx Jul 1938 - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF North Weald.

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

Commissioned as part of the Buried Reserve - 1942/43

No 75 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Disbanded - 1 Jun 1946

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

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Type: - Type 15 (CO/GCI/CHB) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 77 Wing (xx xxx xxxx - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - 7 Mar 1945

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 41 (CHEL) Station

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Location

County: - Caernarvonshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching

Type: - Type ? (CD No 1 Mk IV/V)

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (by Jul 1941 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - 7 Mar 1945

Disbanded on 1 Jun 1946

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 72 Wing (by Jul 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 70 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) - 7 Mar 1945

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 25 Sep 1950)

On 25 September 1950 it was transferred as an Inactive Station without equipment to HQ, No 66 Group, Home Command

Parenting was transferred to No 64 Group on 1 February 1957 but ceased on 1 May 1957 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

Location

County: - Barra, Outer Hebrides

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 24 (CMH) Station

Opened - xx Mar 1944

Transferred to USAAF - 1 May 1944

Fighter Command (1 Nov 1944 - 15 Sep 1945)

No 78 Wing (15 Sep 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

disbanded - 1 Jun 1946.

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 26 (MEW) Station

Opened (USAAF) - xx May 1944

Transferred from USAAF - 1 Nov 1944

Fighter Command (1 Nov 1944 - 15 Sep 1945)

No 78 Wing (15 Sep 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

disbanded - 1 Jun 1946.

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Dec 1947)

Northern Signals Area (1 Dec 1947 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - Suffolk

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref:  TM 476694

Remarks: -

On 1 May 1944 it was transferred to VIII Fighter Command, USAAF as Station 373, operating: -

1. Microwave Early Warning Equipment made available from US sources operated and maintained by USAAF personnel

2. Type 24 Equipment, operated and maintained by RAF personnel.

Type: - Type 16 Station

Opened - xx May 1943

No 74 Wing (xx May 1943 - 1 May 1944)

Transferred to USAAF - 1 May 1944

Fighter Command (1 Nov 1944 - 15 Sep 1945)

No 78 Wing (15 Sep 1945 - 1 Jun 1946)

disbanded - 1 Jun 1946.

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Type: - Type 1 (CH) Station (61)

Opened - xx Jan 1941

Renamed RAF Greystone - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (xx Jan - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - by Mar 1945

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 46 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk  VI (Tower))

Opened -

xx Jan 1941

Renamed RAF Greystone - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (xx Jan - 27 Sep 1941)

No 79 Wing (27 Sep 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 72 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 15 May 1944)

RAFNI? (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage II) - by Mar 1945

Abandoned - 31 May 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: - County Down

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref:  J 618 719

Remarks: -

This was originally formed in Dec 1940 as RAF Kirkistown Castle.

In May 1951 it was listed as redundant in Coastal Command, parented by RAF Aldergrove, until 1 July 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL) station (56A)

Operated by the Royal Navy from xx xxx xxxx

Transferred to the RAF - 4 Nov 1943

No 70 Wing (4 Nov 1943 - 31 May 1946)

Care and Maintenance (25 Aug 1945 - 31 May 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946.

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Navy Type 273 Station (10 cm)

Transferred to the RAF - 4 Nov 1943

No 70 Wing (4 Nov 1943 - 31 May 1946)

The hand-turned standby facility was closed - 15 Apr 1944

Care and Maintenance (25 Aug 1945 - 31 May 1946)

Abandoned - 31 May 1946.

Location

County: - Shetland

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

Officers Commanding: -

 2 Aug 1944         Fg Off R S Clark

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Type: - Type 8 (CHB) Station

Formation Commenced - by Feb 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 70 Wing (xx xxx 1941 - xx xxx 1944)

Closed - xx xxx 1944

Location

County: - Isle of Lewis

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref:  NB509628

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 7 station GCI (10G)

Construction commenced - by Mar 1941

No 76 Wing (xx Mar 1941 - 1 May 1943)

Absorbed onto the establishment of the Middle Wallop Sector - 14 Apr 1941

Parenting transferred to RAF Wrexham - xx May 1941

No 77 Wing (by Feb 1942 - 15 May 1944)

Transferred to the Atcham Sector, parented by RAF Calveley - by Feb 1942

Transferred to the High Ercall Sector, parented by  RAF Tilstock - 1 May 1943

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Jun 1946)

Care and Maintenance (Stage I) (18 Aug 1944 - Jun 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Feb 1950)

Reserve Command (1 Feb 1950 - 1 Apr 1951)

No12 Group (1 Apr - 1 Nov 1951)

Redesignated No 17 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type 30 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1 Mk III)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

As above

Closed - 26 Aug 1944

Location

County: - Cheshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

It was resurrected as part of the ROTOR project and was later developed into a major air traffic control station known as Mersey Radar, operating continuously until the mid 1960s.

No 17 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - xx xxx 1957)

Probably disbanded - Aug 1957.

C & M Party (xx xxx 1957 - 15 Mar 1959)

No 14 Signals Unit

Formed - 15 Mar 1959

No 12 Group (15 Mar -28 Sep 1959)

Air Traffic Services HQ (28 Sep 1959 - 1 Mar 1960)

Redesignated Air Traffic Control Radar Unit (Hack Green) - 1 Mar 1960.

Air Traffic Control Radar Unit, Hack Green

Formed - 1 Mar 1960

Air Traffic Services HQ (1 Mar 1960 - xx xxx xxxx)

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No 112 Signals Unit (Halton Wood)

HQ Bomber Command (30 Apr 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

Disbanded - xx xxx xxxx

Reformed - 1 Jan 1959

Disbanded - 19 June 1959

C & M Party (19 Jun - 10 Jul 1959)

Reduced to inactive status on 10 July 1959, parented by RAF Halton, until 17 March 1961 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

TTC (10 Jul 1959 - 17 Mar 1961)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 8? GCI Station

Construction commenced - by Apr 1941

No 73 Wing (xx Apr 1941 - xx xxx 1941/42)

Absorbed onto the establishment of the Church Fenton Sector - 14 Apr 1941

Transferred to the Kirton Lindsey Sector - xx xxx 1941/42

closed and dismantled on replaced by RAF Patrington - by May 1942

Location

County: - East Yorkshire

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

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Type: - Type 2 CHL Station (31A)

Opened - 25 Dec 1939

HQ Fighter Command (25 Dec 1939 - 23 Feb 1940)

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Marham

Parenting transferred to RAF Horsham St Faith -3 Jun 1940

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 73 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - 1 Nov 1946)

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Nov 1951)

Care and Maintenance on 15 Apr 1948

Returned to operational status on 1 Jun 1949

Redesignated No 745 Signals Unit on 1 Nov 1951.

Type: - Type CMH (Type 13)  station

Opened - By Jan 1941

No 60 Group (23 Feb 1940 - 17 Feb 1941), parented by RAF Marham

Parenting transferred to RAF Horsham St Faith -3 Jun 1940

No 74 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - 1 Jul 1943)

No 73 Wing (1 Jul 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Happisburgh (GCI)

Opened - 1 Feb 1943

HQ, Fighter Command in the Coltishall Sector, parented by HQ, No 74 Wing

No 73 Wing on 1 Jul 1943

Disbanded on 1 Aug 1945

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a full time interception station and was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching. 

No 745 Signals Unit

Formed - 1 Nov 1951

No 12 Group (1 Nov 1951 - 1 Jun 1959)

Disbanded - 2 Sept 1953

Reduced to inactive status on 15 March 1954, parented by RAF Coltishall, until 1 June 1959 following derequisition of the property.

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Type: - GCI Station

RAF Hartland Point was renamed 405 Signals Unit - 12 Jun 1953

No 11 Group (12 Jun 1953 - xx Dec 1956)

No 81 Group (xx Dec 1956 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reverted to the name RAF Hartland Point - xx xxx 1971

Closed (as ROTOR) Station- xx xxx 1958

Closed (Range Safety Radar) - xx xxx 1987

Type: - Type 11 (Mobile) Mk VII

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Two Type 13 Mk IV

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Two Type 13 Mk VII

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 14 Mk VIII

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Type: - Type 14 Mk IX

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - xx xxx xxxx

Unit: - Nuclear Reporting Cell

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

Closed - c1975

No 405 Signals Unit

Formed - 12 Jun 1953

RAF Chigwell (12 Jun 1953 - 1 Jul 1954)

No 11 Group (Southern Sector) (1 Jul 1954 - 1 Dec 1956)

No 81 Group (1 Dec 1956 - 31 Mar 1958)

No 11 Group (31 Mar 1958 - 1 Apr 1963)

HQ, Fighter Command (1 Apr 1963 - xx xxx xxxx)

Reverted to the name RAF Hartland Point in 1970.

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In 1941 it was used as a naval VHF intercept station for the ‘Y service’, feeding material to the Enigma operation at Bletchley Park.

At the end of 1942 it was engaged on air reporting and stand-by surface watching as well as being a part-time GCI station operating 10cm Mk IV equipment but was due to be upgraded to Mk V.

Following its closure as a ROTOR station a GCI team was retained as the range safety radar station for the Bude firing ranges and the air to air refuelling range in the Bristol Channel.

A CAA radar is now located at Hartland Point linked to the ATCC at Swanwick.

Type: - Type 2 (CHL) Station (19A)

Formation commenced - Nov 1940 as Army Coast Defence Mk IV

No 60 Group (xx Nov 1940 - xx xxx 1941), parented by RAF Chivenor

Transferred to the RAF - 7 Jun 1942

No 78 Wing (7 Jun 1942 - 31 Jul 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

No 90 Group (31 Jul - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 15 Aug 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station to Transport Command - 15 Aug 1950, parented by RAF Chivenor

Type: - Type 31 (CHEL) Station (CD No l Mk V)

Opened -

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxx - 1 Nov 1945)

Closed - 1 Nov 1945

Type: - Type 52 (CHEL) Station (CD No 1, Mk VI)

Opened - xx xxx xxxx

No 78 Wing (xx xxx xxx - 31 Jul 1946)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946

No 90 Group (31 Jul - 1 Nov 1946)

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 15 Aug 1950)

Transferred as an Inactive Station to Transport Command - 15 Aug 1950, parented by RAF Chivenor

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Type: - Type 2 (CHL)

process of formation in Apr 1941

Opened - by Jul 1941

No 77 Wing (by Jul 1941 - 15 May 1944)

No 73 Wing (15 May 1944 - 1 Nov 1946)

Care & Maintenance (Stage I) (7 Mar 1945- xx xxx xxxx)

Abandoned - 1 Jun 1946.

Northern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - xx xxx xxxx)

Location

County: -

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

At the end of 1942 it was a dual-role station engaged on air reporting and surface watching.

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Type: - Type 9000 Mk I (9132) Station - Hawkshill Down I

Opened - 29 Jul 1942

No 75 Wing (29 Jul 1942 - 1 Nov 1946)

Upgraded to Mk III - by Jan 1944 as Hawkshill Down V

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Jul 1951)

Care & Maintenance - xx xxx xxxx

No 11 Group (1 Jul 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 9000 (9162) Mk I Station - Hawkshill Down II

Opened - 29 Jul 1942

No 75 Wing (29 Jul 1942 - 1 Nov 1946)

Upgraded to Mk III - by Jan 1944 as Hawkshill Down VI

Southern Signals Area (1 Nov 1946 - 1 Jul 1951)

Care & Maintenance - xx xxx xxxx

No 11 Group (1 Jul 1951 - xx xxx xxxx)

Type: - Type 9000 (9222) Station - Hawkshill Down IV

Opened - by Dec 1943

No 75 Wing (xx xxx 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Converted to Mobile OBOE - by Apr 1944 as Hawkshill Down IV (SM)

Disbanded - xx xxx xxxx

Location

County: - Kent

Lat/Long: 

Remarks: -

In WW1 it had been the site of an airfield, known as Walmer, but in WW2 it was instead used for an Army CD/CHL station being transferred to the Air Ministry on 29 July 1942 and renamed RAF Hawkshill Down.

On 1 July 1951 it was transferred as an Inactive Station from No 90 Group to No 11 Group, parented by RAF West Malling, which was changed to RAF Sandwich on 23 August 1951, until 1 April 1959 following disposal of all Air Ministry assets.

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Type: - Type 1 ('Advance CH) Station (15M)

Opened - xx Jun 1940

No 60 Group (xx Jun 1940 - 17 Feb 1941

No 78 Wing (17 Feb 1941 - xx xxx 1944)

Care & Maintenance (by Jun 1943 - xx xxx xxxx)

Closed - Apr/May 1944.

Location

County: - Devon

Lat/Long: 

Grid Ref:  SX550622

Remarks: -

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