RAF Beachy Head

RAF Beachy Head
near Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
RAF Beachy Head
Coordinates 50°44′17″N 0°15′04″E / 50.738°N 0.251°E / 50.738; 0.251
Type Radar station
Site information
Open to
the public		 No
Condition Part Demolished
Site history
Built 1939 (1939)
In use 1940–1960

RAF Beachy Head is a former Royal Air Force radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne in East Sussex, England. It featured a Type 16 radar that was monitored from RAF Kenley.

RAF Beachy Head saw much activity in the Second World War covering the area from Brighton to Hastings from ten miles out to sea, but began to decline in importance in the 1950s.

ROTOR

In 1952, a ROTOR site was built, which closed in May 1958. The Coastguard used one of the buildings. It closed with the end of the Cold War and partly demolished in 1996.

References

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