Drone Hill, Chain Home Radar Station

NT86NW 70.00 centred 84533 66679

NT86NW 70.01 NT 8462 6651 Building (Transmitter [Tx] block)

NT86NW 70.02 NT 8414 6673 Building

NT86NW 70.03 NT 8453 6668 Building; Bunker

NT86NW 70.04 NT 84184 66592 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.05 NT 84058 66724 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.06 NT 84135 66839 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.07 NT 84483 66583 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.08 NT 84684 66579 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.09 NT 84905 66525 Pillbox; Building

NT86NW 70.10 NT 84814 66405 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.11 NT 84647 66377 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.12 NT 84977 66335 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.13 NT 83889 66152 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.14 NT 84779 66962 Pillbox

NT86NW 70.15 c.NT 8501 6706 Bunker

Drone Hill Chain Home radar station is visible on a Luftwaffe aerial photograph taken in 1939.

Information from RCAHMS (KM) 12 August 1996.

Chain Home Low radar station, transmitter block at NT 8462 6651.

Information from I Brown, November 1998

This radar station is situated at Highview Caravan site, W of Huxton, on the S side of the A1107 public road. Many of the buildings are extant along with several Type 27 pillboxes. The transmitter block is now the Bunker Bar. This was a Chain Home Radar station. The property is now owned by Mr W Howard and D Steedman who reside in the former Officers Quarters.

J Guy 1999; NMRS MS 810/8 52-3, P7-8

This Chain Home and Chain Home Low radar station is visible on RAF post-war low level oblique air photographs, (SOP 136, 30-1, flown 14 April 1954) and shows that at this date eight masts still stood to the SW of Drone Moss. In addition, the transmitter blocks (Tx) and other structures are also visible including several of the defensive pillboxes, all of which would appear to be of the air defence type 27.

This radar station was one of the first to be in action during World War II when Luftwaffe raided the Firth of Forth in October 1939, but the station was non-operational at the time due to a technical fault. The site is now a caravan park and the S end has been landscaped to accomodate several caravan bays. The site is notable for a defensive screen of eleven pillboxes several of which are still standing.

Information from RCAHMS(DE), February 2002

This station was never a Chain Home Low radar station, the transmitter block at NT 8462 6651 is a CH block.

Information via e-mail from Mr I Borwn to RCAHMS, 21 October 2005