INFORMATION:

Ringstead Bay:
RAF Upton Camp thedometic and HQ of Ringstead radar sites.
The site of a Chain Home radar station at Ringstead established by April 1941. Chain Home stations provided early warning of enemy aircraft approaching Britain during the Second World War. They 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 stand-by set houses.