Opened: 1942
Care and
Maintenance:
Mar 1958
Closed: mid-1960s
Units
based here:
The local history group reported that a wartime "Radio Listening Station"
was located at RAF Langtoft.
RAF Langtoft was opened in 1942 as a 'final station' Ground Control
Intercept (GCI) station. The other GCI station in the wartime county
was at RAF Orby. It continued to contribute to Britain's air defences
after the war and was
substantially
enlarged during the late 1940s.
In the 1950s it was again rebuilt as part of the ROTOR scheme to renew
radar stations, coming online in 10 Jul 1953. The station was reduced
to care and maintenance in Mar 1958, finally being sold off in the 1960s.
Surviving buildings at the site include the control bunker, unusually
for this part of the country above ground, a standard RAF
guardhouse on the south side of Langtoft Drain now converted to a house.
Full details of a visit by the "RSG Group" are on the Subterranea Britannica
site :: view here |