Monument record MDO46058 - Second World War Royal Air Force Chain Home Low radar station CHL12A, Worth Matravers

The site of a Royal Air Force Chain Home Low radar station at Worth Matravers established by June 1940. It provided early warning of low-flying enemy aircraft approaching the south coast between Weymouth and Southampton during the Second World War. Chain Home Low sites typically comprised two gantries carrying the transmitter and receiver aerial arrays, a transmitter and receiver hut, a standby set house for the reserve power, and a general purposes hut. Defence measures installed at radar stations included Light Anti-Aircraft gun emplacements, pillboxes, road blocks and air raid shelters. Aerial photography from 1982 shows that the station had been removed and the site given over to agricultural use.

A Chain Home Low Station located at Worth Matravers (SY 963 763), called site CHL12A. It was established by 04-JUN-1940. Chain Home Low (CHL) stations provided early warning of approaching low-flying enemy aircraft during the Second World War. CHL stations used technology originally used by the Army to plot shipping for coastal batteries. In 1940 the Royal Air Force established the series of Chain Home Low stations to supplement the existing Chain Home stations as they were capable of detecting lower-flying aircraft. CHL sites typically comprised two gantries carrying the transmitter and receiver aerial arrays, a transmitter and receiver hut, a standby set house for the reserve power, and a general purposes hut. Defence measures installed at radar stations included Light Anti-Aircraft gun emplacements, pillboxes, road blocks and air raid shelters. A Chain Home station was also located at Worth Matravers at SY 962 772. <1> Chain Home Low Station at Worth Matravers. Aerial photography from 1982 shows that the station had been removed and the site given over to agricultural use. <2>

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