Type Remote Radar Head In use 1937–Present Year built 1936 | Open to
the public No Phone +44 1452 712612 | |
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Address Staxton, Scarborough YO12 4TJ, UK Similar GEM East Ayton, Hunmanby, The Ganton Greyhound, Foxhound Inn, The Downe Arms Hotel | ||
RRH Staxton Wold is a Royal Air Force Remote Radar Head near Scarborough in North Yorkshire.
The present-day site of RRH Staxton Wold has had an early warning function since the 3rd century AD, when it was the site of a warning beacon. It was first used as a radar station in 1937, when it was set up as part of the Chain Home system. It is the only one of the original stations still in use, and may thus claim to be the oldest continuously serving radar station.
Today it is a Remote Radar Head (RRH) within the United Kingdom Air Surveillance and Control System (UKASACS) The radar at Staxton Wold is a Lockheed Martin TPS77 which was due to be working by September 2013, but only became fully operational in early 2015.
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