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No 90 (Signals) Group - April 1951

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

HQ - Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Directly responsible to the Air Ministry)

 

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 5 D/F Station
  • No 8 D/F Station
  • No 3 D/F Station
  • No 2 D/F Station
  • No 4 D/F Station
 Stoke on Trent
  • Highbridge
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Montrose
  • Sutton Valence
 Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
  • Somerset
  • Derby
  • Lincolnshire
  • Kinnaber, Montrose
  • Maidstone, Kent
RAF Station Chigwell    
Radio Engineering Unit (Detachment) RAF Chigwell  
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Grangemouth  
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
No 120 AMES RAF Henlow  
No 121 AMES RAF Henlow  
No 122 AMES RAF Henlow  
No 123 AMES RAF Henlow  
No 124 AMES RAF Henlow  
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Pucklechurch Station in Home Command
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
North-West Signals Centre RAF Blackbrook  
Standby Signals Centre RAF Chicksands  
W/T Station Dagnall  
Meteorological Communications Centre Dunstable  
W/T Station Greatworth  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge  
W/T Station Stoke Hammond  
W/T Station (C & M) Weyhill  

 

Radio Navigational Aids Wing

HQ - RAF Welford

Unit Location/Address Notes
M/F D/F Station Acklington Northumberland
M/F D/F Station Andover Hampshire
GEE Monitor Barkway  
M/F D/F Station Belfast  
M/F D/F Station Bircham Newton Norfolk
GEE Master Bullbarrow Hill Dorset
GEE Slave Clee Hill Ludlow, Shropshire
GEE Master Daventry Northamptonshire
GEE Slave Folly Lincolnshire
GEE Slave Gibbett Hill Hindhead
GH Station High Street, Darsham East Sussex
M/F D/F Station Leuchars Fife
M/F D/F Station Lympne Kent
M/F D/F Station Pendeen Cornwall
M/F D/F Station Plympton Devon
M/F D/F Station Sealand Chester
GEE Slave Sennen Penzance, Cornwall
GEE Master Sharpitor Yelverton, Devon
GEE Slave Stenigot Louth, Lincolnshire
M/F D/F Station Stornoway Isle of Lewis
M/F D/F Station Sumburgh Shetland
GH Station Swingate Dover, Kent
M/F D/F Station Talbenny, Pembrokeshire
GEE Monitor Trerew Newquay
GEE Slave Truleigh Hill Shoreham, Sussex
GEE Slave West Prawle Devon
M/F D/F Station Wick Caithness
GEE Slave & Monitor Worth Matravers Swanage

 

Radar Stations being re-equipped

 
Location Function Administered by
Castle Rock CH Radio Engineering Unit
Danby Beacon CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Douglas Wood CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Drone Hill CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Drytree CH (C & M) RNA Wing
Folly CH (C & M) RNA Wing
Haycastle Cross CH (C & M) RNA Wing
Hillhead CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Netherbutton CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Ripperstone GCI RNA Wing
Sango CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
School Hill CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Sennen CH (C & M) RNA Wing
Staxton Wold CH (C & M) Radio Engineering Unit
Trelanvean CH (C & M) RNA Wing
Treleaver GCI/CEW and/or CHEL RNA Wing
Trerew CH (C & M) RNA Wing
Trewan Sands GCI Radio Engineering Unit
West Prawle CH (C & M) RNA Wing

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Deopham Green Watton S
Fersfield Watton S
Shipdam Watton S
Thorpe Abbots Watton S
Tibenham Watton R

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (127th Edition) - April 1951

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

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