A 360 foot radar transmitter tower, a remnant of WWII's Chain Home network (map below), helped provide an early warning of Luftflotte invasions into central England.
Also, there remain four tropospheric scatter dishes. These were built in 1959 as one of the 82 stations which were part of the NATO's ACE High program, a long range cold war communication system. This is how they looked when in service:
The site was decommissioned in the 80s and mostly demolished in the 90s. The tower is now used by the RAF for its aerial erector school.
Tower
When in service there would have been a third pair of platforms, right at the top.
Tropospheric dishes
There are also a couple of remaining buildings - this is the outside of the 'transmitter block', and a pill box is nearby.
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