Monument record MDO28870 - Second World War Chain Home radar station, Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth

A Second World Chain Home radar station, consisting of arrays of radar masts, lines of pylons and ancillary roads and buildings, is visible as structures on aerial photographs of the 1940s on Hengistbury Head. Evidence of defensive structures to protect the site are also seen, comprising: pill boxes, camouflaged bunkers or air raid shelters, road blocks and anti-aircraft gun posts. Evidence of other military activity comprising slit trenching and anti-glider defences is also located within this area (see child and related records for details of particular features).

A Second World Chain Home radar station, consisting of arrays of radar masts, lines of pylons and ancillary roads and buildings, is visible as structures on aerial photographs of the 1940s on Hengistbury Head. Evidence of defensive structures to protect the site are also seen, comprising: pill boxes, camouflaged bunkers or air raid shelters, road blocks and anti-aircraft gun posts. Evidence of other military activity comprising slit trenching and anti-glider defences is also located within this area (see child and related records for details of particular features). The site is visible over an area measuring approximately 1890 m by 590 m. Military roads extend across the southern area of the site and groups of ancillary buildings are distributed across the whole area. A line of pylons extends east to west across the centre of the site. Three shorter lines of pylons are found in the western area of the site. (1-9) This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

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