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This list of former RAF Stations is a list of all stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force.
The stations are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. Stations initially took their station name from the nearest railway station or halt to the airfield, e.g., RAF Abingdon from Abingdon railway station. It has also been stated that RAF stations took their name from the parish in which the station headquarters was located (e.g., Binbrook has never had a railway station.)
Chain Home, Chain Home Low, Chain Home Extra Low, ROTOR and tropo-scatter stations
Notes: Some of the Chain Home Low sites were co-located with the larger Chain Home radars. Chain Home Extra Low equipment was co-located with "Chain Home" and "Chain Home Low" as well as at separate sites, but were of a less permanent nature, usually with mobile equipment.
ROTOR was the post war Radar interception system created from existing radar installations.
NARS, the North Atlantic Radio System, was an extension of the US Distant Early Warning system tropo-scatter communications network.
ACE High provided long range communications for NATO