Danby Beacon Radar Station

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From 1939 to 1954 this piece of moor played a key role in World War 2.

This site detected and led to the shooting down of the first enemy aircraft to fall on England on 3rd February 1940, a Heinkel 111which later crashed at Bannial Flatt Farm near Whitby.

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This website covers the layout of the site in a lot more details

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