Chain Home Tower
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chain Home Tower by Glyn Baker as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Chain Home Tower
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 11 Jul 2015
This tower once played a vital part in the defence of Britain in WW2 when it was part of the Chain Home radar station at RAF Canewdon see Image One of its twin towers from Canewdon was resited in cut down form to the Welsh coast. This tower was used by Marconi for various types of radio frequency research.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.707359
Longitude
0.497505