ROTOR Bunker List

After the Soviet Union detonated its first Atom Bomb in 1949, and with its capability to reach the United Kingdom with Nuclear Bombs delivered from the Tu-4 Bull bomber, the United Kingdom rethought its air defence network.  With great expediency, the Government commissioned the Cherry Report in 1949, which made recommendations that the 170 existing Royal Air Force radar stations around the country be reduced to 66 sites and the electronics extensively overhauled and upgraded.  With the changes in technology and defence needs a decade, these ROTOR stations have been closed, mothballed, modified or sold off.

To read more about the ROTOR site codes/site designators and how they came about, have a read of this blog post we published on the subject. ROTOR Site Codes ‘decoded’

We have produced a Google Earth File detailing the location of the ROTOR RADAR stations around the United Kingdom that can be viewed at Google maps, here. This list and map does not cover the World War II Chain Home RADAR network. Any photographs of a station we have visited can be viewed by following through the hyperlinks on the Station name.

By clicking on the column headers on the table below, the table can be sorted into alphabetical or numerical order.