A Chain Home Station located at Newchurch (TR 069 311), called site CH73. Chain Home stations commonly comprised transmission and receiver blocks, four 240ft timber receiver aerial towers, four 350ft steel transmitter aerial towers that stood on concrete pads, and other buildings such as dispersed accommodation huts, guard huts and standby set houses. From 1940 defensive measures were installed at radar stations, including Light Anti-Aircraft gun emplacements, pill boxes, road blocks and air raid shelters. NGR given is for the receiver block. (1)

A Chain Home Station at Newchurch. Aerial photography from 1979 shows that the site had been reused as farm buildings at TR 0786 3110. The operations block is in poor condition, but 3-4 ancillary buildings survive along the hedgeline. Two further buildings are visible at TR 0789 3118 and TR 0784 3120. The other half of the site at TR 080 313 is now a field. (2)

<1> Dobinson, C, 2000, Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 7. Acoustics and radar: England's early warning systems 1915-1945 (Bibliographic reference). SWX23709.

<2> Anderton, Michael J., 2000, Twentieth century military recording project: World War Two radar stations (Bibliographic reference). SWX23713.