CHAIN HOME LOW

'Chain Home Low' (CHL) was the name of a radar system used by the RAF during WWII. The official designation was AMES Type 2 (Air Ministry Experimental Station). It was based on CD (Coastal Defence) and CA (Coastal Artillery) radar designed for army use. It was noticed that these were able to detect low flying aircraft and so led to the development of CHL for the RAF. It operated on a shorter wavelength than Chain Home, about 1.5 metres.
Later in the war Chain Home Extra Low (CHEL) radar used centimetric radar and was often co-sited with CHL sites.

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List of Chain Home Low sites

List of Chain Home Low sites



Anstruther, Fife

Ballymartin, County Down, Northern Ireland

Bamburgh, Northumberland

★ Bard Hill, Holt, Norfolk

Bawdsey, Suffolk

Beachy Head, Sussex

★ Beer Head, Devon

Bembridge, Isle of Wight

Bempton, Yorkshire

★ Ben Hough, Tiree

Bexhill, Sussex

★ Blackhead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

★ Bolt Tail, Devon

★ Boniface Down, Isle of Wight

Carsaig, Isle of Mull

★ Cleadon, County Durham

★ Clett, Shetland Islands

★ Cockburnspath, Borders

★ Cocklaw, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire

★ Crannoch Hill, Banff, Banffshire

★ Creignish, Isle of Man

★ Cresswell, Northumberland

Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty

★ Crustan, Orkney Islands

★ Deerness, Orkney Islands

★ Doonies Hill, Gregness, Aberdeen

★ Downhill, County Londonderry. Northern Ireland

★ Dunderhole Point, near Tintagel, Cornwall

Dunnet Head], near Thurso, Caithness

Dunwich, Suffolk

Easington, Yorkshire

★ Eorodale, Isle of Lewis

Fair Isle

Fairlight, Sussex

★ Foreness Point, Kent

Formby, Lancashire

★ Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

★ Goldsborough, Whitby, Yorkshire

Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales

★ Greian Head, Isle of Barra

★ Grutness, Sumburgh, Shetland Islands

★ Happisburgh, Norfolk

Hartland Point, Devon

★ Hawcoat, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire

Highdown Hill, Angmering, Sussex

Hopton, Norfolk

Humberston, Lincolnshire

Hythe, Kent

★ Islivick, Isle of Lewis

★ Jacka, Portloe, Cornwall

★ Kendrom, Kilmaluag, Isle of Skye

★ Kete, Dale, Pembrokeshire

Kilchiaran, Isle of Islay

Kingswear, Devon

★ Poling.

★ Swingate, Dover, Kent

★ Truleigh.

★ Walton.

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