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Old 5th Jun 2022, 10:45
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There was also a 'Signals Unit' stationed just a couple of miles east of Latimer at Chenies from the 1930s (before Bovingdon was built in '41/'42) until the late '50s by which time it had been re-purposed as a ROTOR GCI station; the ops room and associated buildings weren't finally demolished until about 2012.
There is still an installation at Chenies (latterly known as 'Martins Top') used as a remote radar station feeding weather information to the Met Office.
A new radar station was built by NATS roughly midway between Bovingdon and Chenies becoming operational in 2013 and replacing the radar which had been situated on top of T1a car park at Heathrow.
Granted the 'interrogation centre' at Latimer was in use during Bovingdon's wartime operarions but I don't think there was any concern, after all Mychett Place, a mile or so east of Farnborough, was used as the interrogation centre for Rudolf Hess!

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