Once part of Chain Home radar
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Once part of Chain Home radar
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 20 Jun 2020
The mast was part of the Chain Home Radar Station at RAF Stenigot. RAF Stenigot was a Second World War radar station situated near Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire. It was part of the Chain Home radar network, intended to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte 5 and the northern elements of Luftflotte 2 along the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingham and the central Midlands. After the Second World War, the site was retained as part of the Chain Home network. In 1959 it was upgraded to a communications relay site as part of the ACE High programme, which involved adding four tropospheric scatter dishes. These now lie abandoned on the site. The site was decommissioned in the late 1980s and was mostly demolished by 1996. The radar tower and Transmitter Block are Grade II listed structures
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Image Location
Latitude
53.324959
Longitude
-0.114637