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OK, no introduction needed here really but here's the history anyhow.
RAF Stenigot is the site of a Second World War radar station on the Lincolnshire Wolds between Donington on Bain and Stenigot. It was an RAF Radar station between 1938 and 1955 and formed part of the so-called Chain Home radar network. Its purpose was to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte V and the northern elements of Luftflotte II along the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingham. The station incompassed both transmission and receiver blocks. The four 240ft timber receiver aerial towers and four 350ft steel transmitter aerial towers stood on concrete blocks. Other buildings included dispersed accommodation huts, guard huts and standby set houses. In 1940 defensive measures were added, including Light Anti-Aircraft gun emplacements, pill boxes, road blocks and air raid shelters.
Post Second World War, the site was kept on as part of the Chain Home network. Later in 1959 the site was upgraded to a communications relay site as part of the ACE High program roll-out, when the four tropospheric scatter dishes were erected. The site was finally decommissioned in the late 1980s and partially demolished in 1996.
One of the four transmitter aerials survives complete and is now Grade II listed and used by the RAF Aerial Erector School for selection tests for possible recruits. The giant 60-ft-wide parabolic dishes were deemed too expensive to cut up and remove and sit as an impressive remind of the Cold War. A few building survive including a triangular pillbox located at the site's western perimeter along with a large ancillary building. The guardhouse remains at the southern entrance.
On with the pictures:
Here's the welcome party (note: ancillary building top left, guard house right)
img6566 by HughieDW, on Flickr
A few pictures of the guard house to start with:
img6546 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6550 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6557 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6559 by HughieDW, on Flickr
The large ancillary building:
img6572 by HughieDW, on Flickr
On to the dishes themselves:
img6535pan by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6526 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6525 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6519 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6515 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6512 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6510 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6505 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6499 by HughieDW, on Flickr
And finally one of the Grade II listed WW2 transmission tower:
img6496 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Thanks for looking!
RAF Stenigot is the site of a Second World War radar station on the Lincolnshire Wolds between Donington on Bain and Stenigot. It was an RAF Radar station between 1938 and 1955 and formed part of the so-called Chain Home radar network. Its purpose was to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte V and the northern elements of Luftflotte II along the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingham. The station incompassed both transmission and receiver blocks. The four 240ft timber receiver aerial towers and four 350ft steel transmitter aerial towers stood on concrete blocks. Other buildings included dispersed accommodation huts, guard huts and standby set houses. In 1940 defensive measures were added, including Light Anti-Aircraft gun emplacements, pill boxes, road blocks and air raid shelters.
Post Second World War, the site was kept on as part of the Chain Home network. Later in 1959 the site was upgraded to a communications relay site as part of the ACE High program roll-out, when the four tropospheric scatter dishes were erected. The site was finally decommissioned in the late 1980s and partially demolished in 1996.
One of the four transmitter aerials survives complete and is now Grade II listed and used by the RAF Aerial Erector School for selection tests for possible recruits. The giant 60-ft-wide parabolic dishes were deemed too expensive to cut up and remove and sit as an impressive remind of the Cold War. A few building survive including a triangular pillbox located at the site's western perimeter along with a large ancillary building. The guardhouse remains at the southern entrance.
On with the pictures:
Here's the welcome party (note: ancillary building top left, guard house right)
img6566 by HughieDW, on Flickr
A few pictures of the guard house to start with:
img6546 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6550 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6557 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img6559 by HughieDW, on Flickr
The large ancillary building:
img6572 by HughieDW, on Flickr
On to the dishes themselves:
img6535pan by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6526 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6525 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6519 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6515 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6512 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6510 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6505 by HughieDW, on Flickrimg6499 by HughieDW, on FlickrAnd finally one of the Grade II listed WW2 transmission tower:
img6496 by HughieDW, on FlickrThanks for looking!
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