Cocroft, W. D. (1998). RAF Ash Colar War Project. Fort Cumberland: Historic England. https://doi.org/10.5284/1108944. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 RAF Ash Colar War Project
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Series:		 Historic England Research Reports
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Abstract:		 The radar station at RAF Ash was constructed in the early 1950s as part of the RAF's Rotor programme to modernise Britain's radar defences. It became operational in August 1953 and succeeded an earlier wartime radar station, RAF Sandwich. Its function was like its wartime predecessor as a Ground Control Intercept (GCI) station - to direct interceptor aircraft to a position close to intruding aircraft, from where the fighters could close on the target using their own airborne radar. During the 1960s it became part of the civil air-traffic control network, but by the late 1980s the site was fully reoccupied by the RAF. The site consists of a buried double-storey bunker known as an R3 - one of ten such bunkers built in Britain. Above ground features include vents for the bunker, ancillary buildings and radar plinths. The radar station at RAF Ash was constructed in the early 1950s as part of the RAF's Rotor programme to modernise Britain's radar defences. It became operational in August 1953 and succeeded an earlier wartime radar station, RAF Sandwich. Its function was like its wartime predecessor as a Ground Control Intercept (GCI) station - to direct interceptor aircraft to a position close to intruding aircraft, from where the fighters could close on the target using their own airborne radar. During the 1960s it became part of the civil air-traffic control network, but by the late 1980s the site was fully reoccupied by the RAF. The site consists of a buried double-storey bunker known as an R3 - one of ten such bunkers built in Britain. Above ground features include vents for the bunker, ancillary buildings and radar plinths.
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Author:		 Wayne D Cocroft ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Historic England
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Year of Publication:		 1998
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District: Dover
Country: England
Parish: Woodnesborough
County: Kent
Grid Reference: 629898, 157300 (Easting, Northing)
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20TH CENTURY RADAR STATION (Tag)
THEMATIC SURVEY (Event)
RADAR STATION (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: nmr1-517107
Report id: 127/1998
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Created Date:		 04 Jul 2023