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- ...e radar station at Skaw. A combined Coastal Defence U-Boat and Chain Home Low station was also built at [[Saxa Vord]]; after the war this became a ROTOR ...2 KB (292 words) - 17:11, 29 August 2023
- ...in [[Worcestershire]] in 1942. Bawdsey had both Chain Home and Chain Home Low early warning radar stations during the War. ...2 KB (260 words) - 20:28, 15 July 2015
- ...longer-range warning for the area. RAF Skendleby was the other Chain Home Low station in Lincolnshire near [[Skendleby]], [[Spilsby]]. ...4 KB (544 words) - 22:07, 10 October 2020
- During Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a Chain Home radar station at Skaw. The radar station was built in 1941 and closed in 19 A combined Coastal Defence U-boat and Chain Home Low station was also built during the Second World War at [[Saxa Vord]]; after ...3 KB (435 words) - 20:50, 27 November 2023
- ...he site of the master station and a monitoring station of the northern GEE chain of radio navigation stations during Second World War. There was also an art ...3 KB (452 words) - 08:15, 21 September 2015
- This low peninsula is important for migrating birds and it has a small nature reserv ...Home Low radar station was built on the Naze to track German warships and low-flying aircraft, and extended in 1942 to include the old tower.<ref>Refs; W ...3 KB (499 words) - 14:07, 16 November 2022
- ...tes to before the 17th century. One of the notable residents of the great home was Sir Thomas Bowes who was the Justice of the Peace for Essex during much ...was abandoned when bombing seemed to have little effect on any part of the chain system. Many of the above and below ground bunkers are still present. The w ...4 KB (648 words) - 09:22, 9 February 2018
- ...its neighbour, [[Coll]], and in contrast to mountainous [[Mull]], it is a low-lying island; its highest point is Ben Hynish in the south of the island, a ...heavin for heiland galayis".{{#tag:ref|English translation from Scots: "a low-lying fertile fruitful country... Its entirety is inhabited and manured and ...7 KB (1,180 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2015
- ...in locations found in J M Barrie's novel such as the pirates lair, Wendy's home, and many others which children are encouraged to play on. The Meare was du ...ome to a small but thriving Thorpeness Rugby Club, the team who play their home games at the pavilion and sports ground are in the Eastern Counties Leagues ...7 KB (1,175 words) - 20:47, 28 January 2016
- ...a fishing port at the estuary of the [[River Helmsdale]], and was once the home of one of the largest herring fleets in Europe. The river itself is well kn ...onan, who had spent 17 years in the goldfields of Australia. On his return home, he was given the permission by the Duke of Sutherland to pan the gravels o ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 18:01, 17 June 2015
- ...ict — and Woodford Green High Road. There are a number of well-known chain store shops and a good selection of smaller shops, restaurants, cafes, and This area was also, until 2004, home to the student residences of Queen Mary, University of London, but the dist ...4 KB (659 words) - 10:46, 12 January 2016
- ...mile north-east of Skendleby was the location of RAF Skendleby Chain Home Low radar station, with a 200-foot wooden mast on the top of a nearby manmade h ...4 KB (691 words) - 13:42, 10 November 2020
- ...of [[Dittisham]] to a point adjacent to the Greenway Estate. Formerly the home of the late crime writer Agatha Christie, this has stunning views across th ...ng to attack the harbour. The remains of the operating mechanisms for the chain are still visible in Dartmouth castle. ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 13:13, 26 November 2015
- A Home Chain Low radar station was once situated on the cliffs immediately to the south of t ...5 KB (861 words) - 13:16, 9 October 2015
- ...town. A section of the route is shared with a link of the [[Hertfordshire Chain Walk]] approaching [[Hertford]]. Through Hertford town centre, past [[Hertf ...eservoir is directly in front and is the first in the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain. [[Turkey Brook]] joins the Lee on the opposite bank. The far bank now comp ...8 KB (1,357 words) - 12:50, 4 August 2017
- ...s |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=10 October 2005 |title=Low Tide Reveals Lost City Find}}</ref> ...Street near [[Darsham]]. The CH system was supplemented with [[Chain Home Low]] (CHL) stations which, though having a shorter range, could detect much lo ...12 KB (2,011 words) - 19:57, 5 October 2010
- ...<ref>Historic Manuscripts Commission, ''Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B.'', London, 1902: 26.</ref> All landowners (porti ...ry 17, 1629, Alexander Lauder of Gunsgreen, acting as bailie for Sir David Home of Wedderburn, gave a sasine to Andrew Gray in Eyemouth, of some land on th ...13 KB (1,983 words) - 18:29, 10 August 2020
- ...ndbank just off the coast by Littlestone-on-Sea, and is clearly visible at low tide. Further up the coast during the Pipe Line Under The Ocean, or PLUTO, ...CL, report by David Martin, 2004). Researchers think it was originally the home of the Master of The Hospital of St John the Baptist, a large secular estab ...6 KB (984 words) - 15:28, 20 January 2017
- The town is home to many shops and pubs, some of which are located on the main street, Marke ...reaching out to the Westmorland boundary. South of the town is relatively low land. To the north are hills such as [[Coniston Old Man]]. ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 14:44, 24 October 2015
- ...this is the extensive mountain barrier of the Grampians which begins in a low range on the sea-coast immediately south of Aberdeen and rise through vario ...ut although children have to learn this at school, they do not learn it at home and nowhere is it used in local speech. Some map-makers have confused the i ...6 KB (963 words) - 08:11, 28 September 2017